Are midurethral slings the gold standard surgical treatment for primary genuine stress incontinence?

Journal of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 405-407

  Paraiso, Marie Fidela R ^a,b   Muir, Tristi W ^a   Sokol, Andrew I ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Department Obstetrics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLPOSUSPENSION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DETRUSOR DYSSYNERGIA; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MICTURITION DISORDER; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; URODYNAMICS; FOLLOW UP; LAPAROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; STANDARD; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; SURGICAL MESH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; URODYNAMICS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0036876867     PISSN: 10743804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-3804(05)60510-5     Document Type: Editorial

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