Current and future techniques of neuromodulation for bladder dysfunction

Current Urology Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 448-454

  Sherman, Neil D ^a   Amundsen, Cindy L ^b  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEVICE; ELECTRODE; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT SELECTION; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; POSTERIOR TIBIAL NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROVOCATION TEST; PUDENDAL NERVE; REVIEW; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; URGE INCONTINENCE; URINARY URGENCY; URINE RETENTION;

CYSTITIS, INTERSTITIAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; URINARY RETENTION; URINATION DISORDERS;

EID: 36348989585     PISSN: 15272737     EISSN: 15346285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11934-007-0047-z     Document Type: Review

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