Transvaginal mesh kits - How "serious" are the complications and are they reversible?

Urology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 43-49

  Lee, Dominic ^a   Dillon, Benjamin ^a   Lemack, Gary ^a   Gomelsky, Alex ^a   Zimmern, Philippe ^a,b  

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ARTICLE; CYSTOVAGINAL FISTULA; DEVICE REMOVAL; DEVICE SAFETY; DYSPAREUNIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MESH SLING; MICTURITION DISORDER; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSVAGINAL MESH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE INCONTINENCE; URINE RETENTION;

EID: 84871987346     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2012.07.098     Document Type: Article

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