Patterns of management of urethral stricture disease in the veterans affairs system

Urology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 454-458

  Anger, Jennifer T ^a,b,c,d   Scott, Victoria C S ^a,b,c,d   Sevilla, Claudia ^a,b,c,d   Wang, Mingming ^a,b,c,d   Yano, Elizabeth M ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIRECT VISUAL INTERNAL URETHROTOMY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERINEAL URETHROSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; URETER STENT; URETER SURGERY; URETHRA DILATION; URETHRA STRICTURE; URETHROPLASTY; URETHROTOMY; VETERAN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; URETHRAL STRICTURE; VETERANS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051470663     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2010.12.081     Document Type: Article

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