Stamey procedure

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 colposuspension.
T. A. Stamey, US surgeon

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a type of bladder neck suspension similar to the Burch procedure, aided by visualization through a cystoscope. Called also Stamey colposuspension.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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