Pii: S0306-5456(00)00066-8
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Bladder neck hypermobility is widely regarded to be associated with the occurrence of stress urinary incontinence. Several techniques have been proposed to quantify bladder neck mobility: Q-tip test, lateral cysturethrography, introital, rectal, vaginal and perineal ultrasound. Perineal ultrasound allows the dynamic evaluation of the bladder neck. It was shown that the bladder neck position can be reproducibly determined using a co-ordinate system. Coughing and valsalva are both used to induce stress incontinence in the urogynaecological clinic. It was shown before that leak point pressures are higher during coughing than during valsalva in the same patients.The aim of this study was to test the reliability of bladder neck mobility in healthy nulliparous volunteers and to compare the mobility during coughing and valsalva. METHODS
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