Prostate cancer survivorship: A review of erectile dysfunction and penile rehabilitation after prostate cancer therapy

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 200, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 582-585

  Chung, Eric ^a,b   Gillman, Michael ^a  

^a ST ANDREW S WAR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMANS; MALE; PENIS; PHOSPHODIESTERASE 5 INHIBITORS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84904489246     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/mja13.11028     Document Type: Article

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