Comments on “Association Between Urinary Stress Incontinence and Levator Avulsion Detected by 3D Transperineal Ultrasound”

Letter to Editor

It is a very interesting report about the association between stress urinary incontinence and levator avulsion [1]. I congratulate the authors for performing such a large sample study on stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and presenting a new finding that the unilateral levator ani muscle avulsion correlated with SUI.

Publication History

Received: 06 April 2022

Accepted: 21 May 2022

Article published online:
18 October 2022

• Literatur

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