An Indiana pouch is a surgically created urinary diversion that gives the body a continent reservoir to store and eliminate urine after the bladder has been removed, most often due to bladder cancer, pelvic exenteration, bladder exstrophy, or a congenital neurogenic bladder. Patients must catheterize the pouch themselves to empty it. The technique was developed by Mike Mitchell, Randall Rowland, and Richard Bihrle at Indiana University, from which it takes its name.
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An Indiana pouch is a surgically-created urinary diversion used to create a way for the body to store and eliminate urine for patients who have had their urinary bladders removed as a result of bladder cancer, pelvic exenteration, bladder exstrophy or who are not continent due to
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