Vaginal mesh for incontinence and/or prolapse: Caution required!

Expert Review of Medical Devices

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 675-679

  Isom Batz, Ginger ^a   Zimmern, Philippe E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; POLYPROPYLENE;

BLADDER PERFORATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RECTOCELE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN GRAFT; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; URINE INCONTINENCE; VAGINA ATROPHY; VAGINA RECONSTRUCTION; XENOGRAFT;

FEMALE; HUMANS; SUBURETHRAL SLINGS; URINARY INCONTINENCE; UTERINE PROLAPSE; VAGINA;

EID: 34848900403     PISSN: 17434440     EISSN: 17452422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/17434440.4.5.675     Document Type: Editorial

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