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Review of Techniques to Evaluate Micturitional Performance. Promises of 1971 Revisited

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It will be difficult to reconstruct the mood and experience of the marvellous meeting in Aachen held in 1971 but I will try to bring some of the flavor to the reader, and to review subsequent events with a view towards examining what progress has occurred since that time.

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Zinner, N.R. (1985). Review of Techniques to Evaluate Micturitional Performance. Promises of 1971 Revisited. In: Lutzeyer, W., Hannappel, J. (eds) Urodynamics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70436-9_23

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