Treatment of stress urinary incontinence - Midurethral slings: Top-down, bottom-up, "outside-in," or "inside-out"

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 362-375

  Andre Silva, William ^a,b  

^a St Francis Hospital   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Midurethral slings; Retropubic sling; SPARC; TOT; Transobturator; TVT

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ARTICLE; BLADDER INJURY; BLADDER PERFORATION; BLADDER SPHINCTER PROSTHESIS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICTURITION; MICTURITION DISORDER; NOCTURIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RISK; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENSION FREE VAGINAL TAPE; THIGH; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINARY URGENCY; URINE RETENTION; VAGINA ATROPHY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SUBURETHRAL SLINGS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 34249884263     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GRF.0b013e31804a840c     Document Type: Article

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