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Causes and management of urogenital fistulas

A retrospective cohort study from a tertiary referral center in Saudi Arabia

Somaia A. Osman, Ahmed H. Al-Badr, Ola T. Malabarey, Ashraf M. Dawood, Badr N. AlMosaieed and Diaa E.E. Rizk
Saudi Medical Journal April 2018, 39 (4) 373-378; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.4.21515
Somaia A. Osman
From the Department of Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery (Osman, Al-Badr, Dawood), Women’s Specialized Hospital, the Urology Department (AlMosaieed), King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Rizk), College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain; and from the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Urogynecology & Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery (Malabarey), McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
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Ahmed H. Al-Badr
From the Department of Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery (Osman, Al-Badr, Dawood), Women’s Specialized Hospital, the Urology Department (AlMosaieed), King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Rizk), College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain; and from the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Urogynecology & Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery (Malabarey), McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
FRCSC, FACOG
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  • For correspondence: [email protected]
Ola T. Malabarey
From the Department of Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery (Osman, Al-Badr, Dawood), Women’s Specialized Hospital, the Urology Department (AlMosaieed), King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Rizk), College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain; and from the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Urogynecology & Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery (Malabarey), McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
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Ashraf M. Dawood
From the Department of Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery (Osman, Al-Badr, Dawood), Women’s Specialized Hospital, the Urology Department (AlMosaieed), King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Rizk), College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain; and from the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Urogynecology & Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery (Malabarey), McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
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Badr N. AlMosaieed
From the Department of Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery (Osman, Al-Badr, Dawood), Women’s Specialized Hospital, the Urology Department (AlMosaieed), King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Rizk), College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain; and from the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Urogynecology & Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery (Malabarey), McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
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Diaa E.E. Rizk
From the Department of Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery (Osman, Al-Badr, Dawood), Women’s Specialized Hospital, the Urology Department (AlMosaieed), King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Rizk), College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain; and from the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Urogynecology & Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery (Malabarey), McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
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vol. 39 no. 4 373-378
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.4.21515
PubMed 
29619489

Published By 
Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received November 7, 2017
  • Accepted March 7, 2018
  • Published online April 1, 2018.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Somaia A. Osman, SBOG, MRCOG,
  2. Ahmed H. Al-Badr, FRCSC, FACOG⇑,
  3. Ola T. Malabarey, MBBS, FRCSC,
  4. Ashraf M. Dawood, BMChB, FRCSC,
  5. Badr N. AlMosaieed, MD, MPH and
  6. Diaa E.E. Rizk, FRCOG, FRCS
  1. From the Department of Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery (Osman, Al-Badr, Dawood), Women’s Specialized Hospital, the Urology Department (AlMosaieed), King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Rizk), College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain; and from the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Urogynecology & Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery (Malabarey), McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Ahmed Al-Badr, Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery Women’s Specialized Hospital, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: aalbadr{at}kfmc.med.sa ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9088-6014
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