Overactive Bladder Is Not Only Overactive but Also Hypersensitive

Urology

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1053-1059

  Lee, Seung Ryeol ^a   Kim, Hyung Joon ^a   Kim, Ayoung ^a   Kim, Jang Hwan ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CAPACITY; BLADDER FILLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOMETRY; DETRUSOR MUSCLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICTURITION; OVERACTIVE BLADDER; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URGE INCONTINENCE; URINARY URGENCY; URODYNAMICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URINARY BLADDER, OVERACTIVE; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 77951665741     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2009.10.045     Document Type: Article

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