The electrovesicogram in the overactive bladder: Role in determining pathogenesis and diagnostic significance

Urological Research

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 290-293

  Shafik, Ahmed ^a,c   El Sibai, Olfat ^b   Shafik, Ali A ^a   Ahmed, Ismail ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c NONE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Action potentials; Micturition; Pacesetter potentials; Percutaneous electrovesicography; Slow waves

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CONTRACTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROVESICOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MICTURITION; OVERACTIVE BLADDER; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TECHNIQUE; WAVEFORM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NEURAL CONDUCTION; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER, NEUROGENIC;

EID: 4544311966     PISSN: 03005623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00240-004-0412-z     Document Type: Article

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