Long-term urethral catheter drainage.
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Long-term urethral catheter drainage.
SIR,-On behalf of my coauthors, I wish to thank Sir Eric Riches and Dr S L 0 Jackson for their comments (24 November, p 1367). In our enthusiasm to persuade others to adopt the domiciliary approach to long-term urethral catheter management we did not stray into an account of alternative measures, some of which are better suited to hospitalised patients. Sir Eric and Dr Jackson have correctly st...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1979
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.6197.1046