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Recurrent Foley catheter puncture and displacement: a complication of the use of barbed polyglyconate suture to facilitate vesicourethral anastomosis during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy

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  1. Department of Urology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    Amir Toussi, Robert M. Turner II & Stephen V. Jackman

  2. Department of Urology, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, 11794, USA

    Anthony T. Corcoran

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Toussi, A., Turner, R.M., Corcoran, A.T. et al. Recurrent Foley catheter puncture and displacement: a complication of the use of barbed polyglyconate suture to facilitate vesicourethral anastomosis during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy. J Robotic Surg 8, 379–380 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11701-014-0450-7

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