BLADDER INJURIES

15 April 1944

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. 124 (16) , 1120-1124
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1944.02850160026006

Abstract

This paper is suggested by reason of the present crisis through which the world is passing and concerns itself with injuries to the urinary bladder encountered as the result of warfare. Apart from consulting the records of personal experiences in a British base hospital and established medical department statistics from World War I, full acknowledgment is accorded the British surgeons Gordon-Taylor,¹Clifford Morson²and Ralph Thompson,³from whose publications material on.the present war is largely based. In the present world conflict, as in World War I, a definite ratio of bladder to general systemic injuries is occurring. The theme, however, in the present war differs in that the ratio is greater and, because of the predominance of high explosive bombing, the nonpenetrating or concussion injuries considerably exceed the penetrating. During World War I it is estimated that about 70 per cent of bladder injuries were of a

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