[Effect of pregnancy and delivery on the function of the cervico-urethral closure. II. Retrospective study on late consequences of obstetrical trauma].

Adding together the obstetric histories and the urodynamic investigations carried out on 178 incontinent women has made it possible for the authors to work out the role that obstetric trauma can play in urinary symptoms. They are able to demonstrate the effects of repeated normal deliveries and also the results of traumata over and above those that occur physiologically and are sometimes undergone by the perineum.