Clinical usefulness of ultrasound assessment of detrusor wall thickness in patients with neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction due to spinal cord injury: Urodynamics made easy?

World Journal of Urology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 659-664

  Pannek, Jürgen ^a   Bartel, Peter ^a   Göcking, Konrad ^a   Frotzler, Angela ^a  

^a SWISS PARAPLEGIC RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Detrusor wall; Neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction; Thickness; Ultrasound; Urodynamics

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROGENIC BLADDER; OVERACTIVE BLADDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STATISTICAL MODEL; URODYNAMICS;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; ADULT; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER, NEUROGENIC; URINARY BLADDER, OVERACTIVE; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 84878227663     PISSN: 07244983     EISSN: 14338726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00345-012-0970-6     Document Type: Article

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