Can MRI predict which patients are most likely to benefit from percutaneous positioning of volume-adjustable balloon devices?

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 240-246

  Stecco, Alessandro ^a   Saponaro, Antonio ^a   Crivellaro, Simone ^b   Cotroneo, Antonio Raffaele ^a   Frea, Bruno ^b   Carriero, Alessandro ^a   Kocjancic, Ervin ^b  

^a Istituto di Radiologia Diagnostica ed Interventistica   (Italy)

^b MAGGIORE DELLA CARITÀ HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Incontinence therapy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Stress urinary incontinence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER NECK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCCYGEAL BONE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBIC BONE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; URODYNAMICS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIC FLOOR; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33645691629     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000091627     Document Type: Article

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