Neurologic disease masquerading as genitourinary abnormality--the role of urodynamics in diagnosis.
While the great majority of patients with neurogenic bladder and sphincter dysfunction have identifiable neurologic disease a small group will present with obvious genitourinary problems caused by not so obvious neurologic conditions. Thirteen such patients are presented, with a discussion of the ability of various urodynamic tests to predict the presence of significant neurologic disease.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D018723:Bethanechol; D001626:Bethanechol Compounds; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004576:Electromyography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011312:Pressure; D001750:Urinary Bladder, Neurogenic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014555:Urination Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D014563:Urodynamics
D001626:Bethanechol Compounds; D018723:Bethanechol