Correlation between the visual prostate symptom score and international prostate symptom score in patients with lower urinary tract symptoms

International Neurourology Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 37-41

  Park, Yeon Won ^a   Lee, Jun Ho ^a  

^a National Police Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Lower urinary tract symptoms; Prostatic hyperplasia; Questionnaires

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL PROSTATE SYMPTOM SCORE; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTVOID RESIDUAL URINE VOLUME; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE VOLUME; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; URINE FLOW RATE; UROFLOWMETRY; VISUAL PROSTATE SYMPTOM SCORE;

EID: 84897971562     PISSN: 20934777     EISSN: 20936931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5213/inj.2014.18.1.37     Document Type: Article

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