Patterns of urethral injury and immediate management

Current Opinion in Urology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 383-389

  Kommu, Sashi S ^a   Illahi, Ihsan ^b   Mumtaz, Faiz ^b  

^a DERRIFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b CHASE FARM HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anterior urethra; Pelvic fracture and endoscopic realignment; Posterior urethra

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AVULSION INJURY; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BLADDER SPHINCTER; CHILD; CIRCUMCISION; CYSTOSCOPY; CYSTOSTOMY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; LACERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; PELVIS FRACTURE; PENIS INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT INDICATION; URETHRA INJURY; URETHRA STRICTURE; URETHRA SURGERY; URETHROGRAPHY; URETHROPLASTY; URETHROTOMY; URINE INCONTINENCE; VAGINA;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CIRCUMCISION, MALE; CYSTOTOMY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MALE; OBSTETRIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PELVIS; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 35148852001     PISSN: 09630643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOU.0b013e3282f0d5fd     Document Type: Review

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