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Stress urinary incontinence treatment—surgery first?

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A randomized trial involving 460 women with stress urinary incontinence compared physiotherapy with midurethral-sling surgery. We question whether the results, showing higher rates of improvement and cure for surgery than for physiotherapy, should change best practice and clinical practice guideline recommendations.

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  1. CHU de Poitiers, Université de Poitiers, Faculté de Médecine et Pharmacie, Inserm CIC0802, 2 rue de la Milétrie, Poitiers, F–86000, France

    Xavier Fritel

  2. Université de Montréal (UdeM), School of Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, 4565 Chemin Reine-Marie, Montréal, H3W 1W5, QC, Canada

    Chantale Dumoulin

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Fritel, X., Dumoulin, C. Stress urinary incontinence treatment—surgery first?. Nat Rev Urol 11, 10–11 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrurol.2013.300

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