Urethral trauma. Part I: Introduction, history, anatomy, pathology, assessment and emergency management

BJU International

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 310-327

  Mundy, Anthony R ^a   Andrich, Daniela E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

catheterisation; pelvic fracture related urethral injuries; trauma; urethra; urethrography

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ANTERIOR URETHRAL INJURY; BUCK FASCIA; BULBAR URETHRA; CIRCUMCISION; COLLES FASCIA; CONTUSION; CYSTOSTOMY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INCISION; INJURY SEVERITY; INTERMITTENT CATHETERIZATION; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PELVIS FRACTURE; PELVIS INJURY; PELVIS RING DISRUPTION; PENIS INJURY; PERINEAL INCISION; POSTERIOR URETHRAL INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROXIMAL URETHRA RUPTURE; RECTUM RESECTION; RETROGRADE URETHROGRAPHY; REVIEW; STENT; SUPRAPUBIC CATHETERIZATION; SUPRAPUBIC CYSTOSTOMY; URETHRA; URETHRA CIRCUMFERENCE; URETHRA INJURY; URETHRA MUCOSA; URETHRA STRICTURE; URETHRAL BLEEDING; URETHRAL CATHETERIZATION; URETHROGRAPHY; URETHROPLASTY; URINE EXTRAVASATION;

EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; URETHRA; URINARY CATHETERIZATION; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 79960591027     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2011.10339.x     Document Type: Review

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