[Evaluation of patients with urogenital trauma managed in a urology clinic].
BACKGROUND
Ten percent of all traumas, responsible for 14% of all deaths, involve the urogenital system. We retrospectively evaluated the patients with genitourinary trauma who underwent any kind of management modality in our clinics.


METHODS
We retrospectively evaluated 108 patients (92 males, 16 females; mean age 35.8+/-17.5 years; range 6 to 87 years) with urogenital trauma between 2003 and 2007 according to age, gender, type of trauma, affected organ, grade of trauma, accompanying other-organ injuries, radiological imaging techniques, and treatment.


RESULTS
Sixty-eight patients (63%) had blunt, 25 (24%) had penetrating, and 12 (11%) had iatrogenic trauma, and 3 patients (3%) had spontaneous organ injury. When we considered the affected organ, renal trauma was determined in 34 patients (32%), ureteral trauma in 11 (10%), bladder injuries in 18 (17%), urethral trauma in 27 (25%), testicular trauma in 6 (6%), and penile trauma in 12 (10%) patients. Seventeen patients (50%) had grade 3, 11 (32%) had grade 4 and 6 (18%) had grade 5 renal injury; 6 patients of these cases underwent surgical treatment.


CONCLUSIONS
Our results were parallel to those available in the literature. Due to the lack of sufficient information about urogenital trauma rates in our country, it would be highly useful for reference centers to evaluate and publish their own data.
Kaya
Cevdet
C
Department of Urology, Haydarpaşa Numune Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. drckaya@hotmail.com
Koca
Orhan
O
Kalkan
Senad
S
Oztürk
Metin
M
Ilktaç
Abdullah
A
Karaman
Ihsan M
IM
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000293:injuries; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality; D012016:Reference Values; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014193:Trauma Centers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015599:Trauma Severity Indices; D013519:Urogenital Surgical Procedures / Q000401:mortality*; D014566:Urogenital System / Q000293:injuries* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D014950:Wounds, Penetrating / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D055815:Young Adult