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Patients are notoriously poor at accurately reporting changes in their flow. Urinary flow rate estimation is relatively cheap and noninvasive. It should be used as first-line investigation of male patients with voiding dysfunction but has a less established role in women. It must be remembered that uroflowmetry is a measurement of flow only and that assumptions about detrusor function can only be inferred.
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Napier-Hemy, R. (2012). Principles of Measurement of Urinary Flow. In: Payne, S., Eardley, I., O'Flynn, K. (eds) Imaging and Technology in Urology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2422-1_33
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