"First do no harm" and the emerging story of the vaginal reconstructive mesh implant

International Urogynecology Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 983-984

  Swift, Steven E ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMORBIDITY; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DYSPAREUNIA; EDITORIAL; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MEDICAL ETHICS; OBESITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENCE RISK; REOPERATION; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINA RECONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; METHODOLOGY; UTERUS PROLAPSE; VAGINA;

DYSPAREUNIA; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; SURGICAL MESH; UTERINE PROLAPSE; VAGINA; VAGINAL DISCHARGE;

EID: 35748959367     PISSN: 09373462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00192-007-0357-1     Document Type: Editorial

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