Overactive Bladder: Pathophysiology, Diagnostics, and Therapies
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1Department of Urology, Radboud University Nijmegen MC, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands 2Department of Urology, University of Porto, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal 3Department of Continence Medicine, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan 4Department of Urology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, 840 SouthWood Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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دوره 2011 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2011