Patterns of prolapse in women with symptoms of pelvic floor weakness: Magnetic resonance imaging and laparoscopic treatment

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 295-301

  Steiner, Rolf A ^a   Healy, Jeremiah C ^b  

^a KANTONSSPITAL GRAUBÜNDEN   (Switzerland)

^b CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTOCELE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS FLOOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTOCELE; REVIEW; STRESS INCONTINENCE; URINE INCONTINENCE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIC FLOOR; PROLAPSE; RECTOCELE;

EID: 0031849345     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001703-199808000-00003     Document Type: Review

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