Assessment of urethral plate appearance through digital photography: Do pediatric urologists agree in their visual impressions of the urethral plate in children with hypospadias?

Journal of Pediatric Urology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 294-300

  El Hout, Yaser ^a   Braga, Luis H P ^b   Pippi Salle, Joao L ^a   Moore, Katherine ^a   Bägli, Darius J ^a   Lorenzo, Armando J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agreement; Assessment; Hypospadias; Photography, Digital; Urethral plate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; DEVICE; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; URETHRAL PLATE; URETHROPLASTY; UROLOGY; ADOLESCENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICES; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM SURGERY; ORGANIZATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; PSYCHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF CONCEPT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STANDARDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; HYPOSPADIAS; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF CONCEPT; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956875080     PISSN: 14775131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpurol.2009.09.003     Document Type: Article

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