Vacuum Erection Devices Revisited: Its Emerging Role in the Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction and Early Penile Rehabilitation Following Prostate Cancer Therapy

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1182-1189

  Pahlajani, Geetu ^a   Raina, Rupesh ^a,b   Jones, Stephen ^a   Ali, Marwan ^a   Zippe, Craig ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Erectile dysfunction; Penile rehabilitation; Vacuum erection device

Indexed keywords

PAPAVERINE; PHENTOLAMINE; PROSTAGLANDIN E1; SILDENAFIL; TADALAFIL; VARDENAFIL;

ABRASION; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD DYSCRASIA; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CYANOSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ECCHYMOSIS; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE PAIN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PENILE BLOOD FLOW; PENILE FIBROSIS; PENIS ERECTION; PENIS PROSTHESIS; PEYRONIE DISEASE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIAPISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RADICAL RETROPUBIC PROSTATECTOMY; SAFETY; SCAR FORMATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SICKLE CELL; SKIN EDEMA; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; VACUUM ERECTION DEVICE;

EID: 84859245829     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2010.01881.x     Document Type: Article

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