Synthetic slings: Pros and cons

Current Urology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 414-417

  Staskin, David R ^a   Plzak, Louis ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

American Medical System; Artificial Graft; Bladder Neck; Genuine Stress Incontinence; Graft Material

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; POLYPROPYLENE;

FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; REVIEW; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; POLYPROPYLENES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SURGICAL MESH; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0012946924     PISSN: 15272737     EISSN: 15346285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11934-002-0087-3     Document Type: Article

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