Traumatic urethral injuries: Does the digital rectal examination really help us?

Injury

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 984-986

  Ball, Chad G ^a,b   Jafri, S Mohammed ^a   Kirkpatrick, Andrew W ^c   Rajani, Ravi R ^a,b   Rozycki, Grace S ^a,b   Feliciano, David V ^a,b   Wyrzykowski, Amy D ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Digital rectal exam; Trauma; Urethral injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; MALE; PELVIS FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; URETHRA INJURY; URETHROGRAPHY; URETHROSCOPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC BONES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URETHRA; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651004319     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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