[Microsurgical reinnervation of the bladder in spinal cord lesions]

The article generalizes the results of 23 reconstructive operations on the roots of the spinal cord for reinnervation of the urinary bladder in patients with injury to the spinal cord. It was found that the operation was indicated in injury to the inferior motoneuron attended by the development of areflexia or hyporeflexia of a hypotonic bladder, which was manifested by the absence of voluntary micturition with a large amount of residual urine and absence of the urge to urinate.