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Genito-Urinary Fistulae: Vesicovaginal, Ureterovaginal, and Other Urinary Fistula

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Genito-urinary fistulae are recognized complications of gynecologic surgery and obstructed obstetrical labor. Prevention of these complications is a noble goal but will be difficult to achieve. This is especially true in less developed and third world countries. Consequently, the care of this problem will continue to be a challenge to the disciplines of both urology and gynecology. However, in the final analysis, at least we can be proud to hang our hat on those surgical principles developed over the past century to better, the lives of the afflicted, since the first successful vesicovaginal fistula repair over one hundred years ago.

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  1. Gynecologic Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Okechukwu A. Ibeanu

  2. Alvin and Lois Lapidus Cancer Institute, at Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Okechukwu A. Ibeanu

  3. Alvin and Lois Lapidus Cancer Institute, at Northwest Hospital, Randallstown, MD, USA

    Okechukwu A. Ibeanu

  4. Division of Pelvic Neuroscience, Department of Surgery, The Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, 2401 W. Belvedere Avenue, Baltimore, MD, 21215, USA

    David A. Gordon

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Ibeanu, O.A., Gordon, D.A. (2017). Genito-Urinary Fistulae: Vesicovaginal, Ureterovaginal, and Other Urinary Fistula. In: Gordon, D., Katlic, M. (eds) Pelvic Floor Dysfunction and Pelvic Surgery in the Elderly. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6554-0_22

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