Marino R A, Mooppan U M, Kim H
Department of Urology, Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, NY.
J Endourol. 1993 Apr;7(2):89-92. doi: 10.1089/end.1993.7.89.
Male urethral catheterization, as practiced in early Greece, was made possible by a sound knowledge of anatomy. It has been preserved by written tradition and advanced by the development of new materials. Balloon dilation, conceived and practiced more than 160 years ago by urologists, has undergone a similar cycle. Some useful ideas, once conceived, have been forgotten and have surfaced again, decades, sometimes centuries, later as new inventions.
早期希腊所施行的男性导尿术，得益于对解剖学的充分了解才得以实现。它通过书面传统得以保存，并随着新材料的发展而进步。160多年前由泌尿科医生构思并实践的球囊扩张术，也经历了类似的历程。一些有用的想法，一旦被提出，曾被遗忘，几十年后，有时是几个世纪后，又作为新发明重新出现。
