Abstract
Twenty-eight pregnant women at 28 weeks gestation completed a urinary symptom questionnaire and then underwent uroflowmetry and subtracted provoked cystometry in order to correlate their urinary symptoms to their urodynamic assessment. Although a high incidence of urinary symptoms was found, there was poor correlation with the urodynamic findings.
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Cutner, A., Cardozo, L.D. & Benness, C.J. Assessment of urinary symptoms in the second half of pregnancy. Int Urogynecol J 3, 30–32 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00372648
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