Air Charged and Microtip Catheters Cannot be Used Interchangeably for Urethral Pressure Measurement: A Prospective, Single-Blind, Randomized Trial

Journal of Urology

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1013-1017

  Zehnder, Pascal ^a   Roth, Beat ^a   Burkhard, Fiona C ^a   Kessler, Thomas M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

catheterization; female; urethra; urinary continence; urodynamics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; URETHRA; URINE INCONTINENCE; URODYNAMICS;

AIR; CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE; URETHRA; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 48649089302     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2008.05.028     Document Type: Article

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