Robotic repair of complex vesicouterine fistula with and without hysterectomy

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 411-415

  Hemal, Ashok K ^a,b   Sharma, Nitin ^a   Mukherjee, Satyadip ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bladder; Fistulae; Incontinence; Laparoscopy; Robotics; Surgical repair; Urogynecology; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; BLADDER FISTULA; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CYSTOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXCISION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INDWELLING CATHETER; LABOR COMPLICATION; MOBILIZATION; OPERATION DURATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER CATHETERIZATION; UROLOGIC SURGERY; UTEROVESICAL FISTULA;

ADULT; FEMALE; FISTULA; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; ROBOTICS; URINARY BLADDER FISTULA; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; UTERINE DISEASES;

EID: 67650318293     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000218529     Document Type: Article

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