Volume 14, Issue 2 (8-2000)                   Med J Islam Repub Iran 2000 | Back to browse issues page

XML Print

Download citation:
BibTeX | RIS | EndNote | Medlars | ProCite | Reference Manager | RefWorks
Send citation to:
FATTAHI M, KHEZRI A. RUPTURE OF URINARY BLADDER: AN EXPERIENCE WITH 55 CASES IN SHIRAZ. Med J Islam Repub Iran 2000; 14 (2) :127-131
URL: http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/article-1-876-en.html
RUPTURE OF URINARY BLADDER: AN EXPERIENCE WITH 55 CASES IN SHIRAZ
MR FATTAHI , AA KHEZRI
From the Department of Urology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, I.R. Iran.
Abstract:   (4675 Views)
We reviewed 55 cases with trauma to the urinary bladder. Blunt trauma was the cause of injury in 78 percent of cases and associated pelvic fracture was present in 75 percent. Eighty percent of extraperitoneal ruptures were associated with fracture of the pelvis. The most common cause of trauma was car accident (63%), followed by war injury (20%). Nearly two-thirds of patients (63 %) had extraperitoneal rupture. The most common presentation was gross hematuria (49%), followed by abdominal pain and tenderness (38%). In 24 patients, diagnosis was made by retrograde cystography, in 9 patients by intravenous pyelography and the remaining patients were diagnosed by physical examination and diagnostic laparotomy. All of the patients were treated by surgical repair. Mortality rate was two percent.
Keywords: Bladder, Rupture, Extraperitoneal, Intraperitoneal, Trauma, Pelvic fracture.
Full-Text [PDF 432 kb]   (1649 Downloads)    
Type of Study: Original Research | Subject: Urology and Nephrology
Add your comments about this article : Your username or Email:
CAPTCHA
Rights and permissions
Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.