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Ever since Bricker popularised supravesical urinary diversion over 30 years ago, urologists, appliance manufacturers, urostomates, stoma care nurses and entero-therapists have been endeavouring to improve stoma appliances. Advances in the biological application of plastics and related substances have, in little over a decade, seen the introduction of the disposable urostomy appliance and with it an ever-increasing consumer choice in the article itself and its accessories. The stage has now been reached where a bewildering choice of appliances faces the consumer and there is no reason to believe that ingenuity, inventiveness and technical advances will do anything but generate further innovations. Our patients can, therefore, expect to be faced with an even wider selection of appliance equipment in the future.
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Carroll, R.N.P. (1992). Urostomy Appliances. In: Pryor, J.P. (eds) Urological Prostheses, Appliances and Catheters. Clinical Practice in Urology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1461-1_8
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