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Article: When bladder scans fail: three case studies. (Case Study).
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- Urologic Nursing
- Article date:
- August 1, 2002
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This article contains three case studies describing patients who initially presented with complaints of symptoms consistent with urinary retention. Preliminary bladder scans confirmed this diagnosis; however, further workup revealed nonurologic causes for the patients' symptoms.
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Portable ultrasound scanners have become a mainstay in urology offices for a noninvasive assessment of urinary retention. Numerous studies have shown that the Bladder-Scanner[TM] is accurate and simple to use (Coombes & Millard, 1994; Resnick, 1995; Schnider, Birner, Gendo, Ratheiser, & Auff, 2000). In a study by Goode, Locher, Bryant, Roth, and Burgio (2000), this ...