Experimental evaluation of free versus pedicled fascial flaps for sling surgery of urinary stress incontinence

Journal of Urology

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1039-1043

  Fokaefs, Eleftherios D ^a,b   Lampel, Alexander ^a   Hohenfellner, Markus ^a   Lazica, Matthias ^a   Thüroff, Joachim W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

animal study; fascial sling; stress incontinence; surgery

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SKIN FLAP SURVIVAL; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE INCONTINENCE;

EID: 0031022092     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(01)65137-1     Document Type: Article

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