Traumatic bladder rupture in a paratrooper
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System for Focal, Closed-System Central Nervous System Injury
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David Ford1, James Palma, John Robinson
1Palmetto Health Richland, Three Medical Park, Suite 350, Columbia, SC 29203, USA.
Military Medicine
|July 10, 2009
Abstract:
A paratrooper presents after a parachuting accident with the inability to urinate. Initial emergency bedside ultrasound, followed by confirmatory abdominal CT, is carried out and demonstrates an intraperitoneal bladder rupture. The patient is taken to the operating room and a 3-layer closure with omental buttressing is carried out.
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