'The cough game': Are there characteristic urethrovesical movement patterns associated with stress incontinence?

International Urogynecology Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 171-175

  Lewicky Gaupp, Christina ^a,f   Blaivas, Jerry ^b   Clark, Amanda ^c   McGuire, Edward J ^a   Schaer, Gabriel ^d   Tumbarello, Julie ^a   Tunn, Ralf ^e   DeLancey, John O L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell ^*  (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CANTONAL HOSPITAL AARAU   (Switzerland)

^e St Hedwig Hospital   (Germany)

^f Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology   (United States)

Author keywords

Stress urinary incontinence; Ultrasound; Urethrovesical movement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER FUNCTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICTURITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS INCONTINENCE; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; URETHRA FUNCTION; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 58549113823     PISSN: 09373462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00192-008-0738-0     Document Type: Article

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