Surgery Insight: Surgical management of postprostatectomy incontinence - The artificial urinary sphincter and male sling

Nature Clinical Practice Urology

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 615-624

  Comiter, Craig V ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULKING AGENT;

BLADDER SPHINCTER PROSTHESIS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DETRUSOR MUSCLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PELVIS FLOOR; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; REVIEW; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; URODYNAMICS;

HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; URINARY SPHINCTER, ARTIFICIAL; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 36248974629     PISSN: 17434270     EISSN: 17434289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpuro0935     Document Type: Review

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