Cystitis Emphysematosa

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Abstract
CYSTITIS emphysematosa is a rare urologic disease. Its rarity may be more apparent than real. Mills has defined it as an "emphysematous condition of the bladder wall associated with cystitis and hemorrhage."1 The presence of gas in the bladder wall is not a unique situation in the human being, for pneumatosis intestinalis and colpitis emphysematosa in women occur not infrequently. They are apparently not part of the same condition. Various domestic animals have been shown to have the disease.2 In man the majority of cases of cystitis emphysematosa have been observed at autopsy. Approximately 50 cases have been reported in . . .