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Post-prostatectomy urinary incontinence (PPI) remains a difficult problem to resolve. Several surgical treatments have been tried to provide relief from PPI, but a few have proven to be effective and have stood the test of time. One of these is without any doubt the bulbourethral sling, and its concept, which turns every day more, accepted its “adjustability.”
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Romano, S.V., Cobreros, C.H. (2017). Adjustable Male Sling: Argus. In: Singla, A., Comiter, C. (eds) Post-Prostatectomy Incontinence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55829-5_9
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