Uterosacral ligament vault suspension: Five-year outcomes

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 255-263

  Silva, W Andre ^a,b   Pauls, Rachel N ^a   Segal, Jeffrey L ^a   Rooney, Christopher M ^a   Kleeman, Steven D ^a   Karram, Mickey M ^a  

^a GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b St Francis Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COLPORRHAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURSE EVALUATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE SEXUAL FUNCTION INDEX; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTESTINE FUNCTION DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORGASM; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESEARCH SUBJECT; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SHORT FORM INCONTINENCE IMPACT QUESTIONNAIRE; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; UROGENITAL DISTRESS INVENTORY; UTEROSACRAL LIGAMENT VAULT SUSPENSION; VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY;

AGED; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LIGAMENTS; MIDDLE AGED; OHIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEXUALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; UTERINE PROLAPSE; VAGINA;

EID: 33748103163     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000224610.83158.23     Document Type: Article

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