Overactive bladder: Epidemiology and impact on quality of life

Contemporary Ob-Gyn

Volumn 45, Issue 6 SUPPL.2, 2000, Pages 6-14

  Thom, David H ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Stanford California and Cofounder   (United States)

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