Natural history of lower urinary tract symptoms in Japanese men from a 15-year longitudinal community-based study

BJU International

Volumn 110, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1023-1029

  Fukuta, Fumimasa ^a   Masumori, Naoya ^a   Mori, Mitsuru ^a   Tsukamoto, Taiji ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

benign prostatic hyperplasia; community based study; Japanese male; longitudinal study; lower urinary tract symptoms; natural history

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL PROSTATE SYMPTOM SCORE; JAPANESE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATE VOLUME; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; URINE FLOW RATE; AGE; JAPAN; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; JAPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84871709459     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2011.10866.x     Document Type: Article

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