History of urethral catheters and their balloons: drainage, anchorage, dilation, and hemostasis.
Male urethral catheterization, as practiced in early Greece, was made possible by a sound knowledge of anatomy. It has been preserved by written tradition and advanced by the development of new materials. Balloon dilation, conceived and practiced more than 160 years ago by urologists, has undergone a similar cycle. Some useful ideas, once conceived, have been forgotten and have surfaced again, decades, sometimes centuries, later as new inventions.
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Department of Urology, Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, NY.
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