- Stamey procedure (colposuspension)
- Sta·mey procedure (colposuspension) (staґme) [Thomas Alexander Stamey, American urologist, born 1928] see under procedure.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
Stamey procedure (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Stamey procedure — an outdated operation devised to cure stress incontinence of urine in women in which specially designed needles are employed to sling or hitch up the neck of the bladder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
Stamey colposuspension — see under procedure … Medical dictionary
