There are various surgical approaches for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence up to now , many procedures have been utilized with varying degree of success. We had experienced 25 cases of stress urinary incontinence from 1985 to 1989 and
treated all these cases with the method using modified Stamey procedure, so obtained the results as follows.
1. Mean age of the patients was 42.9 year and mean parity was 3.2.
2. In subdivision of 25 cases, Green type I was 52% and type II was 48% also, in the degree of severity , grade I was 40% and grade II was 60%.
3. Postoperatively, posterior urethrovesical angle was markedly reduced.
4. Postoperatively, the urethral length was elongated about 1.8Cm.
5. The average length of Foley catheter drainage was 9 days.
6. Postoperative stress test & Boney test showed negative results in all the cases.
7. During the average 17 months follow up after operation, only l case was recurred.
8. Postoperative complications were minimal except for urinary retention in 9 out 25 cases(36%), of whom three were unable to void till 2 weeks after operation.
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