[Severe bladder dysfunction in the child abuse victim. Hinman syndrome]

Severe bladder dysfunction with possible consequence on the upper urinary tract caused by psychological trauma were recently identified. Hinman in 1973 was the first to report a series of 14 patients with severe abnormal bladder and bowels behaviour with organic cause. He described the most common symptoms met in this group of patients and their management using a non surgical approach based on bladder reeducation and hypnosis. Other authors such as Allen in 1977 reported a similar experience and found severe detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia. In 1995, Ellsworth reported a relation between these abnormal bladder behaviour and a medical history of sexual aggression. We report here in a series of 7 patients with Hinman syndrome associated with aggression. Diagnosis and management by a multidisciplinary team involving paediatricians, paediatric urologists, physiotherapists, paediatric psychologists are detailed [corrected].