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Urinary diversion has a place, with certain limitations, in the treatment of neuropathic bladders.
If there is deterioration of renal function which cannot be controlled by making the patient totally incontinent or by constant urethral catheter drainage, diversion seems to be essential and has been shown to be beneficial.
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Retief, P., Key, A. Urinary diversion in paraplegia. Spinal Cord 4, 226–231 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1966.29
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