title: [Surgery for female stress urinary incontinence with transobturator tape].
abstract: The aim of suburethral transobturator suspension is to cure the women stress urinary incontinence. The concept underlying this apparatus is based on several points: it reproduces the urethral fascia; it complies with Delancey's concept; it consists of a tension-free band through the soft structures of the obturator fossa; it is a perineal surgery. This surgery needs specific devices: a synthetic tape and a specific tool to introduce it, the tunnelling device. Respecting some technical landmarks are mandatory to ensure successful intervention: the vaginal incision must include all the thickness of the vaginal wall; the trans-obturated endpoint must be located at the level of the mid urethra; the tunnelling device must have a close contact with the ischiopubic bone; the finger inside the incision protects the urethra and drives the tunnelling device inside the vaginal incision.
authors.affiliation: Service d'urologie, Polyclinique de Bourgogne, BP 315, 71108 Chalons-sur-Sâone cedex, France. delormee@wanadoo.fr
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Delorme
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D019919:Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods; D014550:Urinary Incontinence, Stress / Q000601:surgery*; D013520:Urologic Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods