Bariatric surgery improves urinary incontinence in morbidly obese individuals

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 586-590

  Kuruba, Rajesh ^a   Almahmeed, Taghreed ^a   Martinez, Ferdinand ^a   Torrella, Tracy A ^a   Haines, Krista ^a   Nelson, Lana G ^a   Gallagher, Scott F ^a   Murr, Michel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gastric bypass; Laparoscopic assisted gastric banding; Obesity; Resolution of co morbidities; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GASTRIC BANDING; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; STOMACH BYPASS; STRESS INCONTINENCE; URGE INCONTINENCE; URINE INCONTINENCE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 36049025584     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2007.08.007     Document Type: Article

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