Evaluation of penile cavernosal artery intima-media thickness in patients with erectile dysfunction. A new parameter in the diagnosis of vascular erectile dysfunction. Our experience on 59 cases

Archivio Italiano di Urologia e Andrologia

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 9-14

  Prezioso, Domenico ^a   Iacono, Fabrizio ^a   Russo, Umberto ^a   Romeo, Giuseppe ^a   Ruffo, Antonio ^a   Russo, Nicola ^a   Illiano, Ester ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Endothelial dysfunction; Intima media thickness; Vascular erectile dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL INDEX OF ERECTILE FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PENIS ARTERY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE, VASCULOGENIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; PENIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 84905191744     PISSN: 11243562     EISSN: 22824197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/aiua.2014.1.9     Document Type: Article

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