Pelvic floor symptoms improve similarly after pessary and behavioral treatment for stress incontinence

Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 118-121

  Kenton, Kimberly ^a   Barber, Matthew ^b   Wang, Lu ^c   Hsu, Yvonne ^d   Rahn, David ^e   Whitcomb, Emily ^f   Amundsen, Cindy ^g   Bradley, Catherine S ^h   Zyczynski, Halina ⁱ   Richter, Holly E ^j  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

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Author keywords

Behavioral therapy; Pessary; Stress urinary incontinence

Indexed keywords

SURVEYS;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; COMBINATION THERAPY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENTS; MEAN AGES; PESSARY; QUALITY-OF-LIFE; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; STRESS URINARY INCONTINENCES; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

FLOORS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PELVIS FLOOR; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS; STRESS INCONTINENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINA PESSARY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PELVIC FLOOR; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PESSARIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS;

EID: 84860611459     PISSN: 21518378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SPV.0b013e31824a021d     Document Type: Article

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