The vexing problem of hidden incontinence

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 354, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 1627-1629

  Rogers, Rebecca G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLPOSUSPENSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MIXED INCONTINENCE; OVERACTIVE BLADDER; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PELVIS SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SACROCOLPOPEXY; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URGE INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; MASS COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; UROLOGIC SURGERY; UTERUS PROLAPSE;

DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; UROGENITAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; UTERINE PROLAPSE;

EID: 33645794812     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe068036     Document Type: Editorial

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