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Does antiseptic washout reduce penile prosthesis infection following revision surgery?

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boxed-textHenry GD et al. (2005) Revision washout decreases penile prosthesis infection in revision surgery: a multicenter study. J Urol 173: 89–92

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  2. Section of Prosthetic Surgery and Genitourethral Reconstruction in the Glickman Urological Institute at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH, USA

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