Evaluation of Aa point and cotton-tipped swab lest as predictors of urodynamic stress incontinence

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 115-119

  Tapp, Karen ^a   Connolly, AnnaMarie ^a   Visco, Anthony G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTTON TIPPED SWAB TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE MARKER; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARITY; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; STRESS INCONTINENCE; URODYNAMICS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, UROLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; URETHRA; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; URODYNAMICS; UTERINE PROLAPSE;

EID: 13244253647     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000146642.68543.69     Document Type: Article

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