Systematic review of lower urinary tract symptoms/benign prostatic hyperplasia surgical treatments on men's ejaculatory function: Time for a bespoke approach?

International Journal of Urology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 22-35

  Marra, Giancarlo ^a   Sturch, Paul ^b   Oderda, Marco ^a   Tabatabaei, Shahin ^c   Muir, Gordon ^b   Gontero, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Benign prostatic hyperplasia; Decreased ejaculation; Ejaculatory dysfunction; Lower urinary tract symptoms; Painful ejaculation; Retrograde ejaculation

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; EJACULATION DISORDER; EMBASE; HEMOSPERMIA; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; MEDLINE; NEODYMIUM YAG LASER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTVOID RESIDUAL URINE VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE ADENOMA; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATECTOMY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RETROGRADE EJACULATION; REVIEW; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; THERMAL INJURY; TRANSURETHRAL ELECTROVAPORIZATION; TRANSURETHRAL INCISION OF THE PROSTATE; TRANSURETHRAL MICROWAVE THERMOTHERAPY; TRANSURETHRAL NEEDLE ABLATION; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COMPLICATION; EJACULATION; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM SURGERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; PROSTATISM; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EJACULATION; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; PROSTATISM; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE;

EID: 84953310848     PISSN: 09198172     EISSN: 14422042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/iju.12866     Document Type: Review

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