Repeated Ice Water Tests and Electrical Perception Threshold Determination to Detect a Neurologic Cause of Detrusor Overactivity

Urology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 772-776

  van Meel, Tom David ^a   de Wachter, Stefan ^a   Wyndaele, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETRUSOR DYSSYNERGIA; DETRUSOR MUSCLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; ICE WATER TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS INCONTINENCE; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLD; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; REFLEX; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER, NEUROGENIC; URINARY BLADDER, OVERACTIVE; WATER;

EID: 35648972050     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2007.05.021     Document Type: Article

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