Failed hypospadias in paediatric patients

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 657-666

  Cimador, Marcello ^a   Vallasciani, Santiago ^b   Manzoni, Gianantonio ^b   Rigamonti, Waifro ^c   De Grazia, Enrico ^a   Castagnetti, Marco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; GLANS DEHISCENCE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREPUTIAL DEHISCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STENOSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; URETHRA DIVERTICULUM; URETHRA FISTULA; URETHRA INJURY; URETHRA OBSTRUCTION; URETHRA STRICTURE; URETHRAL BREAKDOWN; URETHROPLASTY; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

CHILD; HUMANS; HYPOSPADIAS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 84888373738     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2013.164     Document Type: Review

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