Biomaterial Database

Suprapubic stab cystostomy: a safer technique. 2003

Nathan Lawrentschuk, and Dominic Lee, and Peter Marriott, and John M Russell

Department of Surgery, Albury Base Hospital, Albury, NSW, Australia.

Suprapubic catheters have gained wide acceptance in urology. Although many regard their insertion a simple procedure, morbidity is significant and is probably underreported. We describe a percutaneous technique using intraoperative ultrasonography combined with flexible cystoscopy to ensure safe insertion, minimizing the risk to adjacent viscera.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007431	Intraoperative Complications	Complications that affect patients during surgery. They may or may not be associated with the disease for which the surgery is done, or within the same surgical procedure.	Peroperative Complications,Surgical Injuries,Complication, Intraoperative,Complication, Peroperative,Injuries, Surgical,Complications, Intraoperative,Complications, Peroperative,Injury, Surgical,Intraoperative Complication,Peroperative Complication,Surgical Injury
D003558	Cystoscopy	Endoscopic examination, therapy or surgery of the urinary bladder.	Cystoscopic Surgical Procedures,Surgical Procedures, Cystoscopic,Cystoscopic Surgery,Surgery, Cystoscopic,Cystoscopic Surgeries,Cystoscopic Surgical Procedure,Cystoscopies,Procedure, Cystoscopic Surgical,Procedures, Cystoscopic Surgical,Surgeries, Cystoscopic,Surgical Procedure, Cystoscopic
D003559	Cystostomy	Surgical creation of an opening (stoma) in the URINARY BLADDER for drainage.	Suprapubic Cystostomy,Vesicostomy,Cystostomies,Cystostomies, Suprapubic,Cystostomy, Suprapubic,Suprapubic Cystostomies,Vesicostomies
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D012449	Safety	Freedom from exposure to danger and protection from the occurrence or risk of injury or loss. It suggests optimal precautions in the workplace, on the street, in the home, etc., and includes personal safety as well as the safety of property.	Safeties
D014781	Viscera	Any of the large interior organs in any one of the three great cavities of the body, especially in the abdomen.
D018084	Ultrasonography, Interventional	The use of ultrasound to guide minimally invasive surgical procedures such as needle ASPIRATION BIOPSY; DRAINAGE; etc. Its widest application is intravascular ultrasound imaging but it is useful also in urology and intra-abdominal conditions.	Ultrasonography, Intravascular,Ultrasound, Interventional,Interventional Ultrasonography,Intravascular Ultrasonography,Interventional Ultrasound