Update on sacral neuromodulation: Indications and outcomes

Current Urology Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 391-398

  Hassouna, Magdy ^a   Elmayergi, N ^a   Abdelhady, M ^a  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fecal Incontinence; Interstitial Cystitis; Pelvic Floor; Pudendal Nerve; Urge Incontinence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; BACK; BLADDER; DOG; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INNERVATION; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICTURITION DISORDER; PAIN; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CYSTITIS, INTERSTITIAL; DOGS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MALE; PAIN; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SACROCOCCYGEAL REGION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER; URINATION DISORDERS;

EID: 0642367798     PISSN: 15272737     EISSN: 15346285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11934-003-0014-2     Document Type: Article

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