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Why Operations Fail

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The reasons for incontinence following continence surgery are varied: literature reviews are often unsatisfactory because despite the growing use of pre- and postoperative urodynamic investigations, many papers exist where only clinical data are presented and therefore, in terms of failure, only conjectures rather than objective answers are available.

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Stanton, S.L. (1990). Why Operations Fail. In: Drife, J.O., Hilton, P., Stanton, S.L. (eds) Micturition. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1780-3_15

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