title: Surgical treatment of incontinence in elderly women.
abstract: Careful selection of patients can lead to a modest cure rate in elderly women for incontinence due to urethral sphincter incompetence. This is worth while when considering the few complications encountered during and after the surgical procedure, the independence the patients have achieved and the alternative incomplete cure which would have been afforded by conservative therapy.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D014521:Urethra / Q000601:surgery; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000601:surgery; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000601:surgery*