The Journal of Urology
Volume 177, Issue 1 , Pages 203-207 , January 2007

Traditional Foley Drainage Systems—Do They Drain the Bladder?

  • Maurice M. Garcia

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco, California
    • ,
  • Shelly Gulati

      Affiliations

    • University of California, Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, Berkeley, California
    • ,
  • Dorian Liepmann

      Affiliations

    • University of California, Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, Berkeley, California
    • Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
    • ,
  • G. Bennett Stackhouse

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco, California
    • ,
  • Kirsten Greene

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco, California
    • ,
  • Marshall L. Stoller

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco, California
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence and requests for reprints: 400 Parnassus Ave., Box A633, San Francisco, California 94143 (telephone: 415-353-2200; FAX: 415-476-8849).

Received 13 February 2006

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 Study received institutional Committee on Human Research approval.

PII: S0022-5347(06)02158-6

doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2006.08.101

The Journal of Urology
Volume 177, Issue 1 , Pages 203-207 , January 2007

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