Medicine:Word catheter
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The Word catheter is a type of balloon that is placed in the Bartholin gland cyst after incision and drainage to allow continued drainage and re-epithelialization of a tract for future drainage. The stem of the Word catheter is latex.[1] It is named for Samuel Buford Word.[2]
References
- ↑ Chen, Katherine T. (2019). "Bartholin gland cyst and abscess: Word catheter placement". https://www.uptodate.com/contents/bartholin-gland-cyst-and-abscess-word-catheter-placement.
- ↑ Baskett, Thomas F. (2019). "Samuel Buford Word" (in en). Eponyms and Names in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Cambridge University Press. pp. 456-457. ISBN 978-1-108-42170-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=CHaIDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA456.
Further reading
https://first10em.com/word-catheters/
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