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The American Urological Association has published guidelines for the surgical management of female stress urinary incontinence (1). According to these guidelines, the objective demonstration of stress urinary incontinence should be documented prior to initiating surgical therapy. This can be accomplished with physical examination (filling the bladder and observing stress incontinence with cough or Valsalva maneuver) or with urodynamic testing. This chapter reviews the various urodynamic techniques used to assess the presence and severity of female stress urinary incontinence.
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Maxwell, K.M., Clemens, J.Q. (2007). Urodynamic Evaluation of Female Stress Urinary Incontinence. In: Goldman, H.B., Vasavada, S.P. (eds) Female Urology. Current Clinical Urology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-368-4_4
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