The incidence of early and recurrent urinary tract infections after midurethral sling operations

Military Medicine

Volumn 179, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1301-1306

  Gehrich, Alan P ^a   Patzwald, Jason R ^a   Kern, Molly E ^a   Squires, Chris C ^a   Lustik, Michael B ^a  

^a TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SOLDIER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUBURETHRAL SLING; UNITED STATES; URINARY INCONTINENCE; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SUBURETHRAL SLINGS; UNITED STATES; URINARY INCONTINENCE; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84928539343     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: 1930613X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-14-00122     Document Type: Article

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