Selecting suspension points and excising the vagina during Michigan four-wall sacrospinous suspension

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 325-330

  Kearney, R ^a   DeLancey, John O L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EXCISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PELVIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCAR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUSPENSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINA; VAGINA RECONSTRUCTION;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY, VAGINAL; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE PROLAPSE; VAGINA;

EID: 0037316996     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(02)02464-X     Document Type: Article

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