Correlation of Q-tip values and point Aa in stress-incontinent women

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-43

  Zyczynski, Halina M ^a   Lloyd, L Keith ^b   Kenton, Kimberly ^b   Menefee, Shawn ^b   Boreham, Muriel ^b   Stoddard, Anne M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; GONIOMETRY; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; HYMEN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q TIP ANGLE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URETHRA; URETHRA FUNCTION; VAGINA;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, UROLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; URETHRA; URETHRAL DISEASES; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; UTERINE PROLAPSE;

EID: 34347337753     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000267190.09976.81     Document Type: Article

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