Posterior urethral complications of the treatment of prostate cancer

BJU International

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 304-325

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

^a Institute of Urology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cancer; complications; prostate; radiotherapy; surgery; urethra

Indexed keywords

BLADDER NECK CONTRACTURE; BLADDER RECONSTRUCTION; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CRYOTHERAPY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HUMAN; POSTERIOR URETHRAL CONTRACTURE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; REVIEW; SALVAGE THERAPY; URETHRA STENOSIS; URETHRA STRICTURE; URETHROPLASTY; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; URORECTAL FISTULA;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CONTRACTURE; CRYOTHERAPY; HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ABLATION; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTAL FISTULA; SALVAGE THERAPY; URETHRAL DISEASES; URETHRAL STRICTURE; URINARY BLADDER DISEASES; URINARY FISTULA;

EID: 84863723474     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2011.10864.x     Document Type: Review

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