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Urethral catheter: a pain in the neck!
Urologia Internationalis
|May 13, 2003
Abstract:
Long-term urinary catheterization is well recognized in the literature as being associated with significant morbidity and mortality. We present a rare and previously unreported complication of a cervical spine abscess resulting from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus septicaemia originating from the urinary tract in a patient with a urinary catheter.