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This chapter considers the various urodynamic results in the light of current thoughts on lower urinary tract function. A working hypothesis about physiology is needed to rationalise diagnosis and treatment. The following accounts must be regarded not as definitive statements of fact, however didactic they may sound, but as a physiological stimulus to more appropriate therapy. Perhaps the greatest single contribution urodynamics has made is to provoke thought about therapeutic dogma. Although the bladder and urethra are described separately below, it should be remembered that they act normally as a reciprocal functional unit.
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Abrams, P.H., Feneley, R.C.L., Torrens, M. (1983). The Interpretation of Urodynamic Findings. In: Urodynamics. Clinical Practice in Urology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3513-5_4
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