Usefulness of urethral descent for evaluating the type of female stress urinary incontinence

Japanese Journal of Urology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 12-19

  Inoue, Katsumi ^a   Usui, Akihiro ^a   Ikeda, Atsushi ^a   Katou, Masao ^a   Usui, Tsuguru ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Stress urinary incontinence; Urethral mobility; Urodynamics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER NECK; BLADDER SPHINCTER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; STRESS INCONTINENCE; URETHRA; URETHRA FUNCTION; URODYNAMICS; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 0032995714     PISSN: 00215287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5980/jpnjurol1989.90.12     Document Type: Article

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