Female stress and urge incontinence in family practice: Insight into the lower urinary tract

International Journal of Clinical Practice

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 694-700

  Viktrup, L ^a,b  

^a Research Unit for General Practice   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DARIFENACIN; DIURETIC AGENT; DULOXETINE; ESTROGEN; IMIPRAMINE; NORADRENALIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; OXYBUTYNIN; PLACEBO; PROPANTHELINE BROMIDE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TOLTERODINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AGE; ANAMNESIS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BLADDER NECK; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; DETRUSOR MUSCLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; INNERVATION; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MENOPAUSE; MICTURITION; MUSCLE TRAINING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OBESITY; PELVIC DISEASE; PELVIS FLOOR; PELVIS SURGERY; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STRESS INCONTINENCE; URETHRA; URGE INCONTINENCE; URINALYSIS; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINE VOLUME;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; URINARY INCONTINENCE; URINARY TRACT; URINATION;

EID: 0036856346     PISSN: 13685031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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