Removal of urinary catheter on postoperative day 3 or 4 after radical retropubic prostatectomy

Urology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 156-160

  Patel, Rupa ^a   Lepor, Herbert ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOSCOPY; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; URINE CATHETER; URINE RETENTION;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; DEVICE REMOVAL; EXTRAVASATION OF DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC MATERIALS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REOPERATION; TIME FACTORS; URETHRA; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY CATHETERIZATION; URINARY INCONTINENCE; URINARY RETENTION;

EID: 0037253553     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(02)02105-2     Document Type: Article

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