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Urinary incontinence (UI) is defined as an involuntary loss of urine. It is subdivided into (a) stress incontinence whereby involuntary loss of urine is on physical exertion or effort or on sneezing or coughing, (b) urgency incontinence is involuntary loss of urine when associated with or preceded by urgency, and (c) mixed incontinence is a mixture of the two types whereby involuntary loss of urine is associated with both urgency and on physical exertion or effort or on sneezing or coughing. Urgency is defined as ‘the complaint of a sudden compelling desire to pass urine’ [1].

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  1. College of Medicine, Islamic University of Gaza, Gaza, Occupied Palestine

    Omar M. Aboumarzouk MBChB, MSc, PhD, MRCS (Glasg)

  2. Department of Tissue Engenering and Urology, Collegium Medicum, University of Nicolaus Copernicus, Toruń, Poland

    Jan Adamowicz

  3. Katedra i Klinika Urologii Collegium, Medicum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, ul. Grzegórzecka 18, Kraków, Poland

    Jan Adamowicz

  4. Department of Urology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, ul. Grzegorzecka 18, Krakow, 31-531, Poland

    Piotr L. Chłosta MD, PhD, DSci, FEBU

  5. Department of Urology, Nicolaus Copernicus Hospital, Batory 17-19 str., Toruń, 87-100, Poland

    Tomasz Drewa

  6. Katedra i Klinika Urologii Collegium, Medicum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, ul. Grzegórzecka 18, Kraków, Poland

    Tomasz Drewa

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Aboumarzouk, O.M., Adamowicz, J., Chłosta, P.L., Drewa, T. (2014). Incontinence. In: Merseburger, A., Kuczyk, M., Moul, J. (eds) Urology at a Glance. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54859-8_15

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