The vaginal pressure profile

Neurourology and Urodynamics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 243-247

  Guaderrama, Noelani M ^a   Nager, Charles W ^a,b   Liu, Jianmin ^a   Pretorius, Dolores H ^a   Mittal, Ravinder K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Mail Code 0974 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEVATOR ANI MUSCLE; MANOMETRY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; NULLIPARA; PELVIS FLOOR; PRESSURE; URINE INCONTINENCE; VAGINA;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PARITY; PELVIC FLOOR; PRESSURE; REFERENCE VALUES; REST; VAGINA;

EID: 18144416169     PISSN: 07332467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nau.20112     Document Type: Article

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