Chronic urinary retention and pelvic floor hypertonicity after surgery for endometriosis: A case series

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 193, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2133-2137

  Gehrich, Alan P ^a,b   Aseff, John N ^a   Iglesia, Cheryl B ^a   Fischer, John R ^a   Buller, Jerome L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic pelvic pain; Endometriosis; Hypertonicity; Pelvic floor hypertonicity; Urethral spasm; Urinary retention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; DETRUSOR DYSSYNERGIA; DETRUSOR MUSCLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MUSCLE SPASM; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PELVIS FLOOR; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE RETENTION; URODYNAMICS;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PELVIC FLOOR; PELVIC PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPASM; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY RETENTION; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 28444450914     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2005.07.013     Document Type: Article

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