Diagnosis and Quantification
Diagnostic Significance of the Resistance Index
Published in Sex Weekly Plus, September 21st, 1998
J.M. Demeyer and P. Thibo sought to define the precise meaning and diagnostic significance of the resistance index generated by duplex scanning ("The Correlation Among Cavernous Pressure, Penile Rigidity and Resistance Index," Journal of Urology, July 1998;160(1):63-66).
"Penile rigidity was clinically evaluated in eighty patients and a penile duplex scan was performed after intracavernous injection of ten mu g. prostaglandin E1," the authors explained.
The intracavernous equilibrium pressure was...
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Source: Sex Weekly Plus (1998-09-21)
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