RUPTURE OF THE BLADDER

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
In an endeavor to outline and classify the essential observations and symptoms which ought to make possible an early diagnosis of ruptured bladder, all cases of trauma to this viscus admitted to the Cook County Hospital during the years 1926-1929 both in my service and in that of my colleagues were reviewed and analyzed; to these were added private cases and those admitted to the Ravenswood Hospital, about fifty cases in all. Convinced that rupture of the bladder is as much a surgical emergency as any coming under the general classification of "acute abdomen" and that the present high mortality is to a large extent due to unnecessary delay in diagnosis, I collectively tabulated and analyzed salient symptoms in order to separate the constant from the occasional, the pathognomonic from the contributory clinical finding. In the study of these fifty cases, the conviction is forced on one that a large

This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: