Abdominal sacrocolpopexy: A comprehensive review

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 805-823

  Nygaard, Ingrid East ^a   McCreery, Rebecca ^b   Brubaker, Linda ^b   Connolly, AnnaMarie ^b   Cundiff, Geoff ^b   Weber, Anne M ^b   Zyczynski, Halina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SACROCOLPOPEXY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STRESS INCONTINENCE; TREATMENT FAILURE; VAGINA RECONSTRUCTION; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SACRUM; SUTURING METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UROLOGIC SURGERY; UTERUS PROLAPSE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SACRUM; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UROGENITAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; UTERINE PROLAPSE;

EID: 7944220039     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000139514.90897.07     Document Type: Review

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