Stamey colposuspension
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Stamey procedure — an operation devised to cure stress incontinence of urine in women in which specially designed needles are employed to sling or hitch up the neck of the bladder to the anterior abdominal wall with unabsorbable suture material. See also… … Medical dictionary
Stamey procedure (colposuspension) — Sta·mey procedure (colposuspension) (staґme) [Thomas Alexander Stamey, American urologist, born 1928] see under procedure … Medical dictionary
Stamey procedure — an outdated operation devised to cure stress incontinence of urine in women in which specially designed needles are employed to sling or hitch up the neck of the bladder to the anterior abdominal wall with unabsorbable suture material. See also:… … The new mediacal dictionary
colposuspension — Suture fixation of the lateral vaginal fornix to Cooper ligament on each side, as a modification and enhancement of the standard Marshall Marchetti Kranz urethrovesical … Medical dictionary
bladder neck suspension — any of various methods of surgical fixation of the urethrovesical junction area and the bladder neck to restore the neck to a high retropubic position for relief of stress incontinence. The group includes the Marshall Marchetti Krantz operation… … Medical dictionary
