Male urethral strictures and their management

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 43-50

  Hampson, Lindsay A ^a   McAninch, Jack W ^a   Breyer, Benjamin N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; URETHRA STENOSIS; URETHRA STRICTURE; URETHRAL STENT; URETHROPLASTY; URETHROTOMY;

HUMANS; MALE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; URETHRA; URETHRAL STRICTURE; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE;

EID: 84893727076     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2013.275     Document Type: Review

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