Drainage Device May Offer Catheter-Free Prostatectomy Option

Courtesy MedPage Today Surgery  Fri, 10/03/2008 - 16:20

NEW YORK (MedPage Today) -- Patients undergoing robotic radical prostatectomy had virtually none of the pain associated with a conventional urethral catheter when surgeons used an investigational bladder drain, a small pilot study showed.


 

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