Urinary incontinence among the elderly people of Turkey: Prevalance, clinical types and health-care seeking;Yaşli türk popülasyonunda üri̇ner i̇nkonti̇nans: Görülme sikliǧi, muhtemel klinik tipleri ve birey açisindan öneminin deǧerlendirilmesi

Turk Geriatri Dergisi

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 45-50

  Ateşkan, Ümit ^a   Mas, Mehmet Refik ^a   Doruk, Hüseyin ^a   Kutlu, Mustafa ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Elderly; Epidemiology; Health care seeking; Incontinence; Prevalence; Urinary

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744494398     PISSN: 13042947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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