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Keila S Muñiz1,2, Kristin Voegtline3, Sarah Olson4

  • 1Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Division of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. keilamunizmd@gmail.com.

International Urogynecology Journal
|October 20, 2020
PubMed
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Keywords:
Genital hiatusPelvic organ prolapseProlapse bulge symptoms

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