Open AccessShort hospital stay versus day-care Mathieu hypospadias repair
Author(s) -
Philemon E Okoro,
Thomas Tsang
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
african journal of paediatric surgery
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.163
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 0189-6725
pISSN - 0974-5998
DOI - 10.4103/0189-6725.41633
Subject(s) - medicine , hypospadias , fistula , surgery , complication , catheter , retrospective cohort study , general surgery
This study compared the outcome of Mathieu repair between patients who went home within 24 hours on catheter and dressing and patients who were managed in hospital for 48 hours and had their catheters and dressings removed before going home.