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Substandard urological care of elderly patients with spinal cord injury: an unrecognized epidemic?

BACKGROUND: We report the anecdotal observation of substandard urological care of elderly paraplegic patients in the community suffering from long-term sequelae of spinal cord injuries. This article is designed to increase awareness of a problem that is likely underreported and may represent the ‘ti...

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Autores principales:	Vaidyanathan, Subramanian, Singh, Gurpreet, Soni, Bakul, Hughes, Peter, Pulya, Kamesh
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2014
Materias:	Short Report
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3899400/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24447309 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1754-9493-8-4

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