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Volume 329:440-441 August 5, 1993 Number 6
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Female Pelvic Floor Disorders: Investigation and Management

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Edited by J. Thomas Benson. 435 pp., illustrated. New York, W.W. Norton, 1992. $109. ISBN 0-393-71013-0.

In a 1991 article, "The Politics of Prolapse: A Revisionist Approach to Disorders of the Pelvic Floor in Women" (Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 34:486-496), Wall and DeLancey discussed the single musculofascial support structure of the pelvic floor, as well as the neuropathic cause common to the most frequent and troublesome pelvic-floor disorders of women. They summarized the neurophysiologic research of the colorectal surgeon Snooks and coworkers, as well as of the gynecologist David Warrell, who demonstrated that "rather than being problems located in isolated compartments, disorders of the pelvic floor have complex interrelations linked by denervation injury, which is . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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