The global burden of female pelvic floor disorders

BJU International

Volumn 98, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages 1-5

  Kenton, Kimberly ^a   Mueller, Elizabeth R ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anal incontinence; Economic cost; Pelvic organ prolapse; Quality of life; Urinary incontinence

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONSTIPATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; COST OF ILLNESS; DEFECATION DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; GENETIC TRAIT; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOW BACK PAIN; MEDICAL EXPERT; MICTURITION DISORDER; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NURSING HOME; OSTEOPOROSIS; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; OVERACTIVE BLADDER; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SYMPTOM; URGE INCONTINENCE; URINE INCONTINENCE; URODYNAMICS; UTERUS PROLAPSE; VAGINAL VAULT PROLAPSE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC FLOOR; QUALITY OF LIFE; URINARY INCONTINENCE; UTERINE PROLAPSE;

EID: 33746690465     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2006.06299.x     Document Type: Review

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