Morphological evaluation of the male external urethral sphincter complex by transrectal ultrasound: Feasibility study and potential clinical applications

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 275-282

  Miano, Roberto ^a   Kim, Fernando J ^d   De Nunzio, Cosimo ^c   Mauriello, Alessandro ^b   Sansalone, Salvatore ^a   Vespasiani, Giuseppe ^a   Asimakopoulos, Anastasios D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d DENVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Prostate; Transrectal ultrasound; Urethral sphincter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; BLADDER SPHINCTER; EXTERNAL URETHRAL SPHINCTER COMPLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RISK; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; URETHRA;

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; RECTUM; RISK; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; URETHRA; URINARY INCONTINENCE; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84868209772     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: 14230399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000339716     Document Type: Article

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