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[Traumatic rupture of the bladder. Apropos of 26 cases]
J J Rambeaud1, J L Descotes, O Sappey
1Service de chirurgie vasculaire, Center hospitalier universitaire de Grenoble.
Chirurgie; Memoires De L'Academie De Chirurgie
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
26 patients were seen with ruptured bladders at Grenoble Hospital during the last 15 years. Pelvic fractures were present in 95% of the cases. Bladder injuries were extraperitoneal (58%), intraperitoneal (27%), intraperitoneal and extraperitoneal (15%). Patients were hospitalised in Urological Department (40%) or General Surgical and Intensive Care (60%). All patients with intraperitoneal bladder injury, 61% with extraperitoneal ruptures were treated by surgical repair. 4 patients died, secondary to visceral associated injuries.