title: [Rupture of the urinary bladder caused by trivial trauma. Case report].
abstract: The urinary bladder occupies the deep pelvic cavity and is well protected from the bacin: this is the reason why it can rarely be traumatized. Anyway it could suffer traumas, which can cause extraperitoneal and intraperitoneal ruptures. A classification of traumas that can injure the urinary bladder and the treatments of these lesions are presented. A clinical case personal observed regarding a 78 year-old female patient is described. An accidental fall and direct trauma in the hypogastrium caused a rupture of her urinary bladder. In this case, the patient was anuric, though the macrohematuria and microhematuria can be present in the 85% of the urinary bladder lesions. This is an interesting case since it deals with a urinary bladder wall rupture, due to a trivial trauma on the bladder.
authors.affiliation: Seconda Divisione di Chirurgia d'Urgenza e Pronto Soccorso, Istituto Policlinico San Donato (Milano), Cattedra di Chirurgia d'Urgenza e Pronto Soccorso, Università degli Studi, Pavia, Italy.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gambini
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Caputo
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zuccon
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Faccini
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lavezzoli
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bonandrini
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012421:Rupture; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000293:injuries*