Transrectal ultrasonography-guided injection of long-acting steroids in the treatment of recurrent/resistant anastomotic stenosis after radical prostatectomy

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 875-879

  Kravchick, Sergey ^a   Lobik, Leonid ^a   Peled, Ronit ^a   Cytron, Shmuel ^a  

^a BARZILAI MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MICTURITION; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; URETHRAL DILATION; URETHRAL DILATOR; URETHROTOMY; URINE INCONTINENCE;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CYSTOSCOPY; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATECTOMY; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA; URETHRAL STRICTURE;

EID: 84879945063     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: 1557900X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2012.0661     Document Type: Article

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