Carr L K
Department of Surgery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
J Urol. 1995 Mar;153(3 Pt 1):716-7. doi: 10.1097/00005392-199503000-00048.
The urologist is frequently called upon to remove a nondeflating Foley catheter. The basic strategies to accomplish removal involve relieving obstruction of the blocked balloon port channel, dissolving the rubber balloon chemically or rupturing the balloon percutaneously. A less invasive technique of balloon rupture in the female patient, using a peri-catheter urethral route, is described.