Complications and untoward effects of the tension‐free vaginal tape procedure

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 929-932

  Karram, Mickey M ^a   Segal, Jeffery L ^a   Vassallo, Brett J ^a   Kleeman, Steven D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER PERFORATION; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EROSION; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICTURITION DISORDER; MORBIDITY; NERVE INJURY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; TENSION FREE VAGINAL TAPE; URETHRA DISEASE; URGE INCONTINENCE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE RETENTION; UROLOGIC SURGERY; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 0038404552     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0029-7844(03)00122-4     Document Type: Article

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