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Vaginal erosion after hybrid midurethral sling placement.

Bong GW, Rovner ES

Department of Urology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina 29425, USA.

Midurethral polypropylene slings are popular procedures for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence in women. Several commercially manufactured sling kits are available that use proprietary monofilament polypropylene mesh placed between the vaginal wall and midurethral segment. The BioArc sling system is a hybrid sling system that uses polypropylene mesh for fixation and autologous fascia for suburethral support. We report what we believe to be the first case of vaginal erosion after midurethral sling placement using this hybrid system.

Published 15 December 2006 in Urology, 68(6): 1343.e13-4.
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