Tension-free vaginal tape: A quality-of-life assessment

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 518-524

  Vassallo, Brett J ^a   Kleeman, Steven D ^a   Segal, Jeffrey L ^a   Walsh, Peggy ^a   Karram, Mickey M ^a  

^a GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOMETRY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICTURITION DISORDER; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCALE UP; SCORING SYSTEM; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA; URINE INCONTINENCE; VAGINA; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY INCONTINENCE; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; UTERINE PROLAPSE; VAGINA;

EID: 0036710677     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(02)02119-1     Document Type: Article

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