Optimal location and orientation of suture placement in abdominal sacrocolpopexy

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1098-1103

  Wai, Clifford Y ^a,b   White, Amanda B ^c   Carrick, Kelley S ^c   Corton, Marlene M ^c   McIntire, Donald D ^c   Word, R Ann ^c   Rahn, David D ^c  

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

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

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SACROCOLPOPEXY; ANTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT; AORTA BIFURCATION; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; LIGAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACRUM; SPINE; SUTURE; ABDOMINAL WALL; AGED; BACK; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT; SUTURING METHOD; TENSILE STRENGTH; VAGINA;

ABDOMINAL WALL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CADAVER; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENTS; MIDDLE AGED; SACROCOCCYGEAL REGION; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TENSILE STRENGTH; VAGINA;

EID: 66149120668     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e31819ec4ee     Document Type: Article

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