Is sensory testing during lead placement crucial for achieving positive outcomes after sacral neuromodulation?

Neurourology and Urodynamics

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1489-1492

  Peters, Kenneth M ^a   Killinger, Kim A ^a   Boura, Judith A ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

feedback; implantable neurostimulators; neuromodulation; overactive; sensory; urinary bladder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE NEUROSTIMULATOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANK SUM TEST; SACRAL NERVE STIMULATION; SENSORY ANALYSIS; UROLOGIC EXAMINATION;

ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CYSTITIS, INTERSTITIAL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, NEUROLOGICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPLANTABLE NEUROSTIMULATORS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MALE; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER, OVERACTIVE; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 80054825024     PISSN: 07332467     EISSN: 15206777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nau.21122     Document Type: Article

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