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Preferred term

Urinary Catheterization  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • Passage of a CATHETER into the URINARY BLADDER or kidney. Employment or passage of CATHETER through the URETHRA into the URINARY BLADDER Employment or passage of a CATHETER into the URETER from the kidney towards the URINARY BLADDER or from the bladder towards the kidney. The use of a Foley catheter, a type of balloon catheter that was invented to be a URINARY CATHETER that holds itself in place by inflation of the balloon tip.

Entry terms

  • Catheterization, Urinary

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-C5Q4TLDN-B

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