An update on slings

Current Opinion in Urology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 244-249

  Dwyer, Neil T ^a   Kreder, Karl J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Incontinence; Slings; TVT

Indexed keywords

POLYESTER; SILICONE;

ADULT; AGED; BLADDER NECK; BLADDER NECK NEEDLE SUSPENSION; BLEEDING; COLPOSUSPENSION; CYSTOCELE; DYSPAREUNIA; EROSION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICTURITION DISORDER; OVERACTIVE BLADDER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROSTI SLING; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SUBURETHRAL SLING; TENSION FREE VAGINAL TAPE; TRANSOBTURATOR TAPE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URGE INCONTINENCE; URINE INCONTINENCE; URINE RETENTION; URODYNAMICS; UROLOGIC SURGERY; VAGINA DISEASE;

EID: 20644464572     PISSN: 09630643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mou.0000172397.62266.5b     Document Type: Review

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