[Genito-urinary injuries. Sequelae. Medico-legal aspects]

Traumatisms of the genito-urinary apparatus may be due to road or work accidents as well as mishaps occurring in surgery. Whatever be their cause, such after-effects may quite possibly not only perturb genital functioning, but also be detrimental to everyday life, if not survival itself. Such sequels are then open to legal redress, when making an estimate of the attendant damage, it behooves one to take into account the initial lesions, the gesture carried out in surgery, the evolution of such lesions as regards each particular organ and, last but not least, the way after-effects effectively impact upon the subject's everyday life. Such widespread considerations are integrally linked to equally widespread medical knowledge, to which one must necessarily add legal notions pertaining to juridical compensation for the type of corporeal injury which any surgeon, whatever be his degree of expertise, has got to know.