The importance of complex repetitive discharges in the striated female urethral sphincter and the male bulbocavernosus muscle

Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology, Supplement

Volumn 30, Issue 179, 1996, Pages 69-73

  Jensen, Ditlev ^a,b   Stien, Ragnar ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

sphincter electromyography; sphincter pseudomyotonia; urodynamics; voiding dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER SPHINCTER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PELVIS FLOOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URETHRA; URINE INCONTINENCE; URODYNAMICS; ACTION POTENTIAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; MICTURITION DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERINEUM; STRESS INCONTINENCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERINEUM; URETHRA; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; URINATION DISORDERS; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 0030341715     PISSN: 03008886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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