American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Volume 194, Issue 5 , Pages 1418-1422 , May 2006

Mesh erosion in abdominal sacral colpopexy with and without concomitant hysterectomy

Received 24 June 2005 ,Revised 7 November 2005 ,Accepted 13 January 2006.

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 Presented at the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Urogynecologic Society, Atlanta, GA, September 15-17, 2005.Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0002-9378(06)00093-7

doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2006.01.051

American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Volume 194, Issue 5 , Pages 1418-1422 , May 2006

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