Effect of Er:YAG Laser for Women with Stress Urinary Incontinence

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(a) Perineal sonography. Lower urinary tract on three-dimensional transperineal ultrasound imaging in a woman. The top left image shows the mid-sagittal view (A-plane). The top right image is a coronal view (B-plane); the bottom left is the axial or C-plane, showing hypoechogenic area of urethra. The bottom right image is the resulting rendered volume. (b) Axial view of the urethral hypoechoic core. Ultrasound image (axial plane) of the mid-urethral hypoechoic core in a woman with SUI, showing the measurements made for this study: the shortest (A) and longest (B) diameters of the urethral hypoechoic core.

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