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Urinary Bladder Distention Evoked Visceromotor Responses as a Model for Bladder Pain in Mice
Published on: April 27, 2014
Idiopathic bladder rupture
Thu Nguyen1, Joseph A Prahlow2
1Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, 300 Portage St., Kalamazoo, MI, 49007, USA.
Abstract:
Deaths due to hemoperitoneum are not rare and can result from a variety of underlying pathologic processes, including natural disease as well as trauma. Whenever hemoperitoneum is identified at autopsy, it is incumbent upon the pathologist to identify the source of the hemorrhage. The authors present a case of probable traumatic rupture of the urinary bladder that resulted in lethal intra-abdominal hemorrhage, occurring in a young man who was found dead the morning after drinking heavily.
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