The significant morbidity of removing pelvic mesh from multiple vaginal compartments

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1418-1422

  Pickett, Stephanie D ^a   Barenberg, Benjamin ^a   Quiroz, Lieschen H ^a   Shobeiri, S Abbas ^a   O'Leary, Dena E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER INJURY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY MASS; DEVICE REMOVAL; DYSPAREUNIA; EXCISION; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIST; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSTETRICIAN; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; PALPATION; PARITY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PELVIC PAIN; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM INJURY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; TRANSVAGINAL SLING; TREATMENT INDICATION; URETHRA INJURY; URINE INCONTINENCE; UROLOGIST; VAGINAL SUPPORT DEVICE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; SURGERY; SURGICAL MESH; URINATION DISORDERS; VAGINA;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DEVICE REMOVAL; DYSPAREUNIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL MESH; URINATION DISORDERS; VAGINA;

EID: 84929871013     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000000870     Document Type: Article

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