Bladder emptying over a period of 10-45 years after a traumatic spinal cord injury

Spinal Cord

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 631-637

  Hansen, R B ^a   Biering Sorensen F ^a   Kristensen, J K ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bladder management; Catheterisation; Paraplegia; Spinal cord injury; Tetraplegia

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BLADDER EMPTYING; CLINICAL FEATURE; DENMARK; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER, NEUROGENIC; URINARY CATHETERIZATION;

EID: 9144249779     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.sc.3101637     Document Type: Article

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