Urodynamics in the management of female stress incontinence - Which test and when?

Current Opinion in Urology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 359-364

  Patel, Anand K ^a   Chapple, Christopher R ^a  

^a ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Leak point pressure; Stress urinary incontinence; Urethral pressure profilometry; Urethral retro resistance profile; Urodynamics

Indexed keywords

BLADDER DISEASE; BLADDER SPHINCTER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CYSTOMETRY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INTRINSIC SPHINCTER DEFICIENCY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTVOID RESIDUAL URINE VOLUME; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; STRESS INCONTINENCE; URETHRA DISEASE; URETHRA PRESSURE; URETHRAL HYPERMOBILITY; URODYNAMICS; UROFLOWMETRY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, UROLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; RHEOLOGY; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 44649174402     PISSN: 09630643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOU.0b013e3283023c0e     Document Type: Review

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