New research confirms that sacral nerve stimulation is a feasible option for treating subjective symptoms of urinary and fecal incontinence in children. However, owing to a lack of correlation between objective and clinical response parameters, we require standardized means of assessing outcomes in this patient population.
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Fox, J., Reinberg, Y. Pediatric sacral neuromodulation for refractory incontinence. Nat Rev Urol 7, 482–483 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrurol.2010.137
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