Clarifying the role of urodynamics in the preoperative evaluation of stress urinary incontinence

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Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages 1259-1268

  Fletcher, Sophie G ^a   Lemack, Gary E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Incontinence; Urodynamics

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MICTURITION DISORDER; OVERACTIVE BLADDER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA PRESSURE; URODYNAMICS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRESSURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; URODYNAMICS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; UROLOGY; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 58449091160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2008.159     Document Type: Review

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