Uterus preservation in pelvic organ prolapse surgery

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 626-633

  Zucchi, Alessandro ^a   Lazzeri, Massimo ^a   Porena, Massimo ^a   Mearini, Luigi ^a   Costantini, Elisabetta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF; POLYPROPYLENE;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ATTITUDE TO SEXUALITY; BLADDER INJURY; CONSENSUS; DYSPAREUNIA; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; HYSTEROCOLPOSACROPEXY; INFECTION; LAPAROSCOPY; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; MESH SLING; OPERATION DURATION; OVERACTIVE BLADDER; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PLICATION; POSTERIOR INTRAVAGINAL SLINGPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SACROCOLPOPEXY; SACROHYSTEROPEXY; SACROSPINOUS HYSTEROPEXY; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SURGICAL APPROACH; URGE INCONTINENCE; URINARY URGENCY; UROLOGIC SURGERY; UTERINE CERVIX DISEASE; UTERINE CERVIX STENOSIS; UTEROSACRAL SUSPENSION; UTERUS PRESERVATION SURGERY; UTERUS SURGERY; VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY;

ABDOMEN; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; UTERUS; VAGINA;

EID: 78549281830     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2010.164     Document Type: Review

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