Journal article

Publication year: 1998

Pages: 495-502

Journal: Urologe A

Volume number: 37

Issue number: 5

ISSN: 0340-2592

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001200050208

Publisher: Springer

Abstract: 
diagnostics of erectile dysfunction there are different simple or large-scale procedures available. Refering to a three-step-scheme that makes difference in the diagnostics in I. non-invasive, II. semi-invasive and III. invasive procedures the current diagnostic measures will be explained. To the non-invasive measures do account the extensive patients history taking including the sexual history and the psychological diagnostics, the physical examination and laboratory screenings. The semi-invasive procedures include the intracavernous injection test with vasoactice substances, the doppler sonography and duplex or color duplex sonography;the corpus-cavernosum-electromyogram (CC-EMG) and other neurophysiological examinations. The third invasive step contains the dynamic infusion pharmacological cavernosography and cavernosometry (DICC) and the selective pharmacological phallo-arteriography. The procedures of this step are essentially limited to patients with erectile dysfunction who are planned for surgical interventions.

Harvard Citation style: Hauck, E., Schroeder-Printzen, I. and Weidner, W. (1998) Rational diagnosis of erectile dysfunction, Urologe A, 37(5), pp. 495-502. https://doi.org/10.1007/s001200050208

APA Citation style: Hauck, E., Schroeder-Printzen, I., & Weidner, W. (1998). Rational diagnosis of erectile dysfunction. Urologe A. 37(5), 495-502. https://doi.org/10.1007/s001200050208