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01-04-2008 | Editorial

Ageing of the female pelvic floor: towards treatment a la carte of the “geripause”

Authors: Diaa E. E. Rizk, Mohamed A. Fahim

Published in: International Urogynecology Journal | Issue 4/2008

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When you are old and grey and full of sleep,

And nodding by the fire, take down this book,

And slowly read, and dream of the soft look,

Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

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Title: Ageing of the female pelvic floor: towards treatment a la carte of the “geripause”
Authors: Diaa E. E. Rizk
Mohamed A. Fahim
Publication date: 01-04-2008
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: International Urogynecology Journal / Issue 4/2008
Print ISSN: 0937-3462
Electronic ISSN: 1433-3023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00192-008-0576-0

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