Tape functionality: Sonographic tape characteristics and outcome after TVT incontinence surgery

Neurourology and Urodynamics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 485-490

  Kociszewski, Jacek ^a   Rautenberg, Oliver ^b   Perucchini, Daniele ^c   Eberhard, Jakob ^b   Geissbühler, Verena ^b   Hilgers, Reinhard ^d   Viereck, Volker ^b,d  

^a Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics   (Germany)

^b Kantonsspital Frauenfeld   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÄTSSPITAL ZÜRICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Introital ultrasound; Outcomes; Stress urinary incontinence; Tape functionality; Tape position; Tension free vaginal tape (TVT)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSITION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TAPE FUNCTIONALITY; TAPE POSITION; TAPE SHAPE AT REST; TENSION FREE VAGINAL TAPE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY URGENCY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SUBURETHRAL SLINGS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; URODYNAMICS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 50849141346     PISSN: 07332467     EISSN: 15206777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nau.20556     Document Type: Article

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