Surgical management of pelvic organ prolapse in women

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Maher, Christopher ^a   Feiner, Benjamin ^b   Baessler, Kaven ^c   Schmid, Corina ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b HILLEL YAFFE MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; MORPHINE;

AWARENESS; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; BLADDER FUNCTION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL GLOBAL IMPRESSION SCALE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONSTIPATION; CYSTOCELE; CYSTOTOMY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEATH; DEFECATION DISORDER; DEFECOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG USE; DYSPAREUNIA; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; FLATULENCE; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE ASSESSMENT; GRAFT REJECTION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYMEN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE FUNCTION; LENGTH OF STAY; NOCTURIA; OPERATION DURATION; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; OVERACTIVE BLADDER; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PELVIS SURGERY; PHYSICIAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENT DISEASE; RETURN TO WORK; REVIEW; SEXUAL FUNCTION; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TISSUE GRAFT; TISSUE REPAIR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY URGENCY; UTERUS PROLAPSE; VAGINAL VAULT PROLAPSE; VISCERAL DAMAGE; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; RECTUM PROLAPSE; SURGICAL MESH; SUTURING METHOD; URINE INCONTINENCE;

CYSTOCELE; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RECTAL PROLAPSE; SURGICAL MESH; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; URINARY INCONTINENCE; UTERINE PROLAPSE;

EID: 84887004245     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004014.pub5     Document Type: Review

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