New strategies of pelvic nerves stimulation for recovery of pelvic visceral functions and locomotion in paraplegics

Neurourology and Urodynamics

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1433-1438

  Possover, Marc ^a   Schurch, B ^b   Henle, K P ^a  

^a KLINIK HIRSLANDEN   (Switzerland)

^b BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

bladder overactivity; spasticity; spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BLADDER EMPTYING; CASE REPORT; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMAN; LEG; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MICTURITION; NERVE STIMULATION; OVERACTIVE BLADDER; PARAPLEGIA; PELVIC NERVE; PENIS ERECTION; PUDENDAL NERVE; SACRUM; SCIATIC NERVE; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; VISCERA;

ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LOCOMOTION; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; PARAPLEGIA; PENILE ERECTION; SCIATIC NERVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER, OVERACTIVE; URINARY INCONTINENCE; URINATION;

EID: 78349260071     PISSN: 07332467     EISSN: 15206777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nau.20897     Document Type: Article

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