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Adjustable Male Slings: REMEEX

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Post-Prostatectomy Incontinence

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Urinary incontinence remains a serious problem for a significant minority of patients following prostate cancer treatment, due to the adverse effect on the quality of life. A better understanding of the anatomical structures that maintain urinary continence after radical prostatectomy has significantly reduced the rate and severity of post-radical prostatectomy incontinency.

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  1. Urologist Hospital Comarcal de Monforte, Lugo, Spain

    Aljendro Sousa Escandon, Juan León, Javier Flores & Daniel Sousa-González

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  1. Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Ajay Singla

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    Craig Comiter

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Escandon, A.S., León, J., Flores, J., Sousa-González, D. (2017). Adjustable Male Slings: REMEEX. In: Singla, A., Comiter, C. (eds) Post-Prostatectomy Incontinence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55829-5_8

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