Clinical phenotyping in chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome and interstitial cystitis: a management strategy for urologic chronic pelvic pain syndromes
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عنوان ژورنال: Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1365-7852,1476-5608
DOI: 10.1038/pcan.2008.42