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External Appliances

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This article focuses on the Male External Catheter (MEC), on assessment, products, techniques and care. A MEC is indicated in male patient if other curative treatment options have either failed or are deemed unsuitable, perhaps on account of a patient being unfit for any other intervention or are requested by the patient. The usual scenarios are urinary incontinence without significant post-void residual urine, overactive bladder with urge UI and significant post-void residual urine in patients that are incapable or unwilling to perform IC or other treatment options, but without other complications of chronic urinary retention. Absolute and relative contraindications are listed.

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  1. University Hospital of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Veronika Geng & Susanne Vahr

  2. Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Hanny Cobussen-Boekhorst

  3. EAUN, Arnhem, The Netherlands

    Hanneke Lurvink

  4. Manchester Royal Infimary, Manchester, UK

    Ian Pearce

  5. Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Dora Mair

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Geng, V., Cobussen-Boekhorst, H., Lurvink, H., Pearce, I., Vahr, S., Mair, D. (2019). External Appliances. In: Liao, L., Madersbacher, H. (eds) Neurourology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7509-0_28

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