[Approach to urinary incontinence in women].

Urinary incontinence is a very common problem in women; it can lead to a specific alteration of quality of life which is necessary to evaluate before any treatment. Various types of incontinence can be described: stress incontinence, urge incontinence, mixed incontinence. Clinical examination is always necessary to exclude a specific cause of incontinence particularly neurogenic dysfunction in which incontinence may be the first symptom before motor or sensitive alterations appearance.