Hemorrhagic complications associated with tension-free vaginal tape procedure

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 989-994

  Flock, Felix ^a   Reich, Andreas ^a   Muche, Rainer ^a   Kreienberg, Rolf ^a   Reister, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; STRESS INCONTINENCE; ASPIRATION; COMPRESSION THERAPY; DRAIN; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENSION FREE VAGINAL TAPE; URODYNAMICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS;

CERTOPARIN; CERTOPARIN 3000 IE;

EID: 16544370140     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000140680.30065.61     Document Type: Article

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