How important is TVT location?

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 904-908

  Dietz, Hans Peter ^a,b   Mouritsen, Lone ^a   Ellis, Gaye ^a   Wilson, Peter Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Incontinence surgery; Stress incontinence; Tape position; Translabial ultrasound; TVT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; DISSECTION; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCISION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICTURITION DISORDER; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBIS SYMPHYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECURRENT DISEASE; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TENSION FREE VAGINAL TAPE; TRANSLABIAL ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND; UROFLOWMETRY; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL MESH; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; URODYNAMICS; VAGINA;

EID: 1642283464     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0001-6349.2004.00198.x     Document Type: Article

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