[Stress incontinence: symptoms. Anatomo-radiological and urodynamic exploration by flow-metry (author's transl)]

The authors study stress incontinence, symptom and not disease, an entity which is rarely found in the pure state in the 21 cases presented. After analysis of the physio-pathological factors concerning stress incontinence, they present the results of a dynamic study by flow measurement (flow-metry). This enabled division of the incontinent patients into 3 groups, depending on the amount of flow, on micturition, normal, increased, decreased. Each group has common anatomo-radiological points, perhaps permitting a new dynamic classification of symptomatic stress incontinence.