Efficacy and safety of 5 alpha-reductase inhibitor monotherapy in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia: A meta-analysis

• Jae Heon Kim ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jae Heon Kim, Min Jung Baek

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: piacekjh@hanmail.net, piacekjh@schmc.ac.kr (JHK); mintbora0125@gmail.com (BL)

  Affiliations Department of Urology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, United States of America, Department of Urology, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, Soonchuhyang University Medical College, Seoul, Korea

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4490-3610

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• Min Jung Baek ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jae Heon Kim, Min Jung Baek

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, CHA Bundang Medical Center, Seongnam, Korea

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• Hwa Yeon Sun,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Urology, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, Soonchuhyang University Medical College, Seoul, Korea

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• Bora Lee ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: piacekjh@hanmail.net, piacekjh@schmc.ac.kr (JHK); mintbora0125@gmail.com (BL)

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, Graduate School of Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea

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• Shufeng Li,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Urology and Dermatology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, United States of America

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• Yash Khandwala,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Urology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, United States of America, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, CA, United States of America

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• Francesco Del Giudice,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Urology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3865-5988

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• Benjamin I. Chung

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Urology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, United States of America

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