Mid-urethral synthetic slings for female stress urinary incontinence

BJU International

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 596-608

  Fong, Eva D M ^a   Nitti, Victor W ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

complications; mid urethral synthetic sling; outcomes; stress urinary incontinence; tension free vaginal tape; transobturator tape

Indexed keywords

AGE; BLADDER PERFORATION; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CATHETERIZATION; COLPOSUSPENSION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; EROSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INGUINAL REGION; MESH SLING; MICTURITION; MIXED INCONTINENCE; MORBIDITY; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; OBESITY; OVERACTIVE BLADDER; PAIN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SUBURETHRAL SLING; SURGERY; TENSION FREE VAGINAL TAPE; TISSUE INJURY; TRANSOBTURATOR TAPE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA INJURY; URINARY DYSFUNCTION; URINARY URGENCY; URODYNAMICS; VAGINA ATROPHY; VAGINA PESSARY; METHODOLOGY; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; SUBURETHRAL SLINGS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 77955905905     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2010.09544.x     Document Type: Review

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