Stop test or pressure-flow study? Measuring detrusor contractility in older females

Neurourology and Urodynamics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 184-189

  Thai, Lian Tan ^a,c   Bergmann, Margaret A ^b   Griffiths, Derek ^a   Resnick, Neil M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bladder; Geriatrics; Urodynamics

Indexed keywords

OXYBUTYNIN; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CAPACITY; BLADDER PRESSURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETRUSOR DYSSYNERGIA; DETRUSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MICTURITION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELIABILITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; URGE INCONTINENCE; URODYNAMICS; VALIDATION PROCESS; ALGORITHM; BLADDER; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PRESSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URINARY BLADDER; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 2542484560     PISSN: 07332467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nau.20020     Document Type: Article

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