Tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) in morbidly obese patients with severe urodynamic stress incontinence as last option treatment

European Urology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 544-550

  Skriapas, Konstantinos ^a,c   Poulakis, Vassilis ^a   Dillenburg, Wolfgang ^a   De Vries, Rachelle ^a   Witzsch, Ulrich ^a   Melekos, Michael ^b   Becht, Eduard ^a  

^a Stiftung Hospital Zum Heiligen Geist   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^c Northwest Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Incontinence; Morbidly obesity; TVT; Vaginal sling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER DISEASE; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOSCOPY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MORBID OBESITY; PAIN; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS INCONTINENCE; TENSION FREE VAGINAL TAPE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE RETENTION; URODYNAMICS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; URODYNAMICS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VAGINA;

EID: 32944461249     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2005.11.008     Document Type: Article

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