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Toilet Training and Bladder Control in Children with Cerebral Palsy

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Patients with cerebral palsy often have changes to their urinary tract function. This can lead to significant morbidity over a lifetime. The etiology of urinary tract dysfunction is multifactorial and complex. Understanding and managing urinary tract symptoms can have a huge impact on health and quality of life for patients and caregivers.

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  1. Division of Pediatric Urology, Department of Surgery, Nemours/Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE, USA

    Puneeta Ramachandra & T. Ernesto Figueroa

  2. Department of Urology and Pediatrics, Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Puneeta Ramachandra & T. Ernesto Figueroa

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  1. Puneeta Ramachandra
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Correspondence to Puneeta Ramachandra .

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  1. Alfred I. duPont Institute, Wilmington, Delaware, USA

    Freeman Miller

  2. Cerebral Palsy Program, AI DuPont Hospital for Children , Wilmington, Delaware, USA

    Steven Bachrach

  3. AI DuPont Hospital for Children , Wilmington, Delaware, USA

    Nancy Lennon

  4. Drexel University, PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, USA

    Margaret O'Neil

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  1. AI DuPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE, USA

    Freeman Miller

  2. Al duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE, USA

    Steven Bachrach

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Ramachandra, P., Figueroa, T.E. (2018). Toilet Training and Bladder Control in Children with Cerebral Palsy. In: Miller, F., Bachrach, S., Lennon, N., O'Neil, M. (eds) Cerebral Palsy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50592-3_56-1

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