Long-term results of a self-expanding wallstent in the treatment of urethral stricture

BJU International

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1037-1039

  Hussain, Mahreen ^a   Greenwell, Tamsin J ^a   Shah, Julian ^a   Mundy, Anthony ^a  

^a Charles Bell House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Long term complications; Urethral stricture; Urolume stent

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC LITHOLAPAXY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INDWELLING CATHETER; INTERMITTENT CATHETERIZATION; INTRAPROSTHETIC EXCRESCENCE; LITHOTRIPSY; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION DISORDER; OBSTRUCTING STENT HYPERPLASIA; OPTICAL URETHROTOMY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTMICTURITION DRIBBLE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF EXPANDING WALLSTENT; STENT ENCRUSTATION; STENT MIGRATION; STENT OBSTRUCTION; STENT STONE; STENT STRICTURE; STONE FORMATION; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; URETER STENT; URETHRA STRICTURE; URETHRAL DILATATION; URETHROPLASTY; URETHROTOMY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ADULT; AGED; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA; URETHRAL STRICTURE;

EID: 9644278015     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2004.05100.x     Document Type: Article

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