The contractile properties of vaginal myofibroblasts: Is the myofibroblasts contraction force test a valuable indication of future prolapse development?

International Urogynecology Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1399-1403

  Meyer, Sylvain ^a   Achtari, C ^a,b   Hohlfeld, P ^a   Juillerat Jeanneret, L ^b  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Pelvic floor myofibroblasts; Utero vaginal prolapse

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOCELE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MULTIPARA; MYOFIBROBLAST; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTION; PRIMIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UTERUS PROLAPSE;

EID: 51949102078     PISSN: 09373462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00192-008-0643-6     Document Type: Article

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