Testing in Women with Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 53-69

  Nager, Charles W ^a,b   Albo, Michael E ^a  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; BLADDER CONTRACTION; BLADDER EMPTYING; BLADDER FILLING; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COUGHING; CYSTOGRAPHY; CYSTOMETRY; CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; MICTURITION; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; PERINEUM; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RESIDUAL URINE; REVIEW; STRESS INCONTINENCE; URETHRA; URETHRA PRESSURE; URINE INCONTINENCE; URODYNAMICS; UROFLOWMETRY; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; URETHRA; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY INCONTINENCE; URINATION; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 1842484504     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003081-200403000-00009     Document Type: Review

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