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Long catheter sign: a reliable bedside sign of incorrect positioning of foley catheter in male spinal cord injury patients

INTRODUCTION: Indwelling urethral catheter is often used in male spinal cord injury patients to provide drainage to neuropathic bladder. If the balloon of a Foley catheter is inflated in urethra or, when a properly inserted Foley catheter is later pulled and thereby, the Foley balloon comes to lie i...

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Autores principales: Vaidyanathan, Subramanian, Hughes, Peter L, Oo, Tun, Soni, Bakul M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2488320/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18637181
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-43