Patients with urinary incontinence often benefit from surgical detethering of tight filum terminale

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 150-154

  Selçuki, Mehmet ^a   Ünlü, Aǧahan ^b   Uǧur, Hasan Çaǧlar ^b   Soygür, Tarkan ^b   Arikan, Nihat ^b   Selçuki, Deniz ^c  

^a CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Faculty of Medicine ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Detethering; Hyperreflexive neurogenic bladder; Incontinence; Surgery; Tethered cord

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TETHERED CORD SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE INCONTINENCE; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 0342803574     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003810050482     Document Type: Article

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