Trends in stricture management among male medicare beneficiaries: Underuse of urethroplasty?

Urology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 481-485

  Anger, Jennifer T ^a   Buckley, Jill C ^b   Santucci, Richard A ^c   Elliott, Sean P ^d   Saigal, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DETROIT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILLING AND CLAIMS; CAUCASIAN; COMORBIDITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; TREND STUDY; URETHRA STRICTURE; URETHRAL STENT; URETHROPLASTY;

EID: 79551612116     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2010.05.055     Document Type: Article

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