title: Lower urinary tract dysfunction in pelvic gynecologic cancer: the role of urodynamics.
abstract: The exact incidence of lower urinary tract dysfunction is not known and its pathogenesis is not completely understood. Advances in urodynamic assessment and widespread availability of a standardized technique have facilitated its exploration prior to and subsequent to the surgical management of patients with gynecologic pelvic cancer. We performed a PubMed and Medline literature search using the following keywords: bladder dysfunction, urinary dysfunction, and urodynamics and all these terms in combination with radical hysterectomy in order to analyze the role of urodynamics in patients with pelvic gynecologic cancer in the preoperative as well as in the early and late postoperative settings.
authors.affiliation: Jules Bordet Institute, 1 Rue Héger Bordet, 1000 Brussels, Belgium ; Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 Franklin Roosevelt Avenue, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Fouad
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Aoun
authors.affiliation: Jules Bordet Institute, 1 Rue Héger Bordet, 1000 Brussels, Belgium ; Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 Franklin Roosevelt Avenue, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Alexandre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Peltier
authors.affiliation: Jules Bordet Institute, 1 Rue Héger Bordet, 1000 Brussels, Belgium ; Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 Franklin Roosevelt Avenue, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Roland
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: van Velthoven