Shades of dry - Curing urinary stress incontinence

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 356, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 2198-2200

  Strohbehn, Kris ^a,b  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETRUSOR MUSCLE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENOPAUSE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNITED STATES; URINE RETENTION; URODYNAMICS; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; MICTURITION DISORDER; NOTE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; URINATION DISORDERS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 34249700104     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe078068     Document Type: Editorial

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