Neither α-blocker therapy nor cystography is required before early catheter removal after radical prostatectomy

BJU International

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 323-325

  Nieder, Alan M ^a   Manoharan, Murugesan ^a   Kim, Sandy S ^a   Soloway, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Catheter removal; Prostate cancer; Radical prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER NECK; CYSTOGRAPHY; DRUG USE; EVALUATION; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTURE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; RADICAL RETROPUBIC PROSTATECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; URETER CATHETER; URINE RETENTION;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; DEVICE REMOVAL; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY CATHETERIZATION; URINARY RETENTION;

EID: 14144254861     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2005.05292.x     Document Type: Article

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