STRESS INCONTINENCE
Abstract
According to Kegel1 stress incontinence affects about 5.5% of all adult women. Although the patient is usually a multipara with a cystocele,2 Nemir and Middleton3 found some degree of stress incontinence in 52.4% of 1,327 otherwise healthy nulliparous young college women. Many women with mild degrees of urinary incontinence do not complain of this symptom or even mention it in the course of giving a gynecologic history, and unless a complaint is made the examining physician may make...