Pelvic-abdominal injuries caused by goring are serious lesions which require rapid diagnosis and urgent treatment in the context of a polytraumatized patient. The simultaneous rupture of both the bladder and the prostatic-membranous urethra occurs in 10%-29% of males with pelvic fractures but bladder neck injuries in adults are rarer. Unstable pelvic fractures, bilateral fractures of the ischio...

Blunt injury of the urinary bladder is well known and usually associates pelvic fractures. Isolated bladder injury is a rare condition and on the other hand, delayed bladder perforation is an extremely rare entity. Herein, we described an unusual case of isolated delayed intraperitoneal bladder rupture that occurred on the third post injury day in a young male in the absence of free intraperito...

We present a rare case of ovarian teratoma involving both the rectum and the urinary bladder. A 23-year-old woman presented with lower abdominal pain for 5 years, passing hairs in her stools for 18 months, and passing hairs in her urine and increased frequency of micturition for 4 months. On clinical examination, no mass was palpable. Abdominal ultrasound revealed a left adnexal echogenic lesio...

To cite: Vinograd AM, Camara AF, Konneh SA, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2016214372 DESCRIPTION An 8-year-old boy presented with abdominal distension 1 week after a wall collapsed on him. Immediately after the injury, he developed abdominal distension. He was treated at an outside hospital and observed overnight. No imaging was available ...

75-year old gentleman presented with acute urinary retention. He had met with road traffic accident 15 years back and sustained pelvic fracture and bladder rupture, underwent bladder repair and open reduction and internal fixation of pubic symphsis. Imaging studies showed the free lying encrusted orthopedic screw in the bladder, which was removed per urethra using nephroscope. Migratory foreign...

A 62-year-old man presented to the emergency department with an episode of syncope after 2-3 weeks of diffuse abdominal pain, now complaining of a severe increase in pain concurrent with >24 hours of no urine output. His workup showed an idiopathic extraperitoneal rupture of the bladder on computed tomography, which was handled conservatively with Foley insertion. Repeated follow-up and imaging...

Inguinoscrotal bladder hernias are rare, occurring in 1-4% of all inguinal hernias. Massive inguinoscrotal bladder hernias, where >50% of the bladder is found in the hernia sac are extremely rare. Patients can suffer significant morbidity from such a hernia. These include sepsis, unilateral or bilateral ureteric obstruction, renal failure and strangulation with secondary ischaemia of the bladde...

Sir, In Urology Journal 2008;5:269-71, Basiri and Radfar reported on the serious but rare complication of spontaneous intraperitoneal bladder rupture following salvage radiotherapy for biochemically recurrent prostate cancer.(1) This was successfully managed by conservative methods. Bladder rupture has been described as a complication of both pelvic external beam radiation therapy and brachythe...

Urinary bladder diverticulum is an outpouching of urothelial mucosa through bladder muscular wall. The present paper reports one such rare accidental finding of acquired urinary bladder diverticulum in a buffalo calf and its surgical management. A 3-month-old male buffalo calf was presented with a history of not having passed urine for the previous 15 days but with no signs of bladder rupture. ...