Urethral strictures

BJU International

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 6-26

  Mundy, Anthony R ^a   Andrich, Daniela E ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF UROLOGY AND NEPHROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anterior urethra; review; urethral strictures; urethroplasty

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EVALUATION; CYSTOSCOPY; DILATATION; ECHOGRAPHY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; URETER CATHETERIZATION; URETER STENT; URETHRA STRICTURE; URETHROPLASTY; URETHROTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; DILATATION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; URETHRA; URETHRAL STRICTURE; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650645667     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2010.09800.x     Document Type: Review

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