How Robust is the Evidence for Slings in the Treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence?

European Urology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 645-647

  Chapple, Christopher R ^a   Patel, Anand K ^a  

^a ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPROPYLENE;

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BLADDER PERFORATION; COLPOSUSPENSION; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SHORT FORM 36; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TENSION FREE VAGINAL TAPE; URGE INCONTINENCE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY URGENCY; URINE RETENTION; VALSALVA MANEUVER; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; SUBURETHRAL SLINGS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS;

EID: 34547150126     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2007.06.027     Document Type: Editorial

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