Early removal of urinary catheter after radical retropubic prostatectomy is both feasible and desirable

Urology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 425-429

  Lepor, Herbert ^a   Nieder, Alan M ^a   Fraiman, Mitchell C ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYSTOGRAPHY; EXTRAVASATION; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; QUESTIONNAIRE; URINE CATHETER; URINE RETENTION;

CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CONTRAST MEDIA; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY CATHETERIZATION; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 0034860042     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(01)01218-3     Document Type: Article

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