Tension-free vaginal tape procedure: An effective minimally invasive operation for the treatment of recurrent stress urinary incontinence?

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 93-98

  Kuuva, Nina ^a   Nilsson, Carl Gustaf ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Recurrent stress urinary incontinence; Tension free vaginal tape procedure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER INJURY; BLADDER PERFORATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVALESCENCE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATURIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICTURITION; MICTURITION DISORDER; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE EDEMA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESIDUAL URINE; SAFETY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TENSION FREE VAGINAL TAPE; TISSUE INJURY; URETHRA; URGE INCONTINENCE; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE RETENTION; URINE VOLUME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VAGINA;

EID: 0041912595     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000072942     Document Type: Article

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