Trauma of the Lower Urinary Tract

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INJURIES of the bladder and posterior urethra constitute surgical emergencies. Appropriate therapy, instituted early, usually gives gratifying results, but delay in treatment causes a sharp increase in the morbidity and mortality. It is therefore important that there be available safe, simple and reliable diagnostic procedures.The clinical history and physical examination may provide sufficient information to establish a diagnosis, but oftener they serve only to focus attention on the lower urinary tract without permitting a definite conclusion concerning the exact site and extent of the injury. The urinalysis may even be deceptive. Intraperitoneal rupture of the bladder can exist in . . .

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