Old habits die hard; does early urinary catheter removal affect kidney size, bacteriuria and UTI after renal transplantation?

Roghayeh Akbari ¹, Sedigheh Rahmani Firouzi ², Abazar Akbarzadeh-Pasha ¹ *

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