Comparison of health-related quality-of-life outcomes for African-American and Caucasian-American men after radical prostatectomy

BJU International

Volumn 110, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1129-1133

  Lee, Eugene W ^a   Marien, Tracy ^a   Laze, Juliana ^a   Agalliu, Ilir ^b   Lepor, Herbert ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; erectile dysfunction; health related quality of life; incontinence; prostate cancer; prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHODIESTERASE V INHIBITOR; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AMERICAN UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION SYMPTOM INDEX; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UCLA PROSTATE CANCER INDEX; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; MICTURITION DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE TUMOR; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES; URINATION DISORDERS;

EID: 84871888389     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2012.10951.x     Document Type: Article

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