Prostate volume predicts outcome of treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia with finasteride: Meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials

Urology - Tập 48 Số 3 - Trang 398-405 - 1996
Peter Boyle1,2,3, A. Lawrence Gould1,2,3, Claus G. Roehrborn1,2,3
1Department of Urology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
2From the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, European Institute of Oncology, via Ripamonti 435, 20141 Milan, Italy
3Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, Pennsylvania, USA;

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