URETERAL RUPTURE IN AN ELDERLY PATIENT FOLLOWING MINOR TRAUMA - CASE-REPORT

Authors
CROSS JL WONG V IRVING HC HOWDLE PD
Citation
Jl. Cross et al., URETERAL RUPTURE IN AN ELDERLY PATIENT FOLLOWING MINOR TRAUMA - CASE-REPORT, The journal of trauma, injury, infection, and critical care, 36(4), 1994, pp. 594-596
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Emergency Medicine & Critical Care
Journal title
The journal of trauma, injury, infection, and critical care → ACNP
Volume
36
Issue
4
Year of publication
1994
Pages
594 - 596
Database
ISI
SICI code
Abstract
A 75-year-old woman arrived at our hospital 2 weeks after falling from a bus. She was shown to have a ruptured left ureter. After drainage o f a urine collection and decompression of her obstructed kidney she re covered. To our knowledge ureteric rupture has not before been reporte d as a consequence of such minor trauma.