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Spontaneous Rupture of the Urinary Bladder 10 Years after Curative Radiotherapy

Author(s) -

Apostolos P. Labanaris,

Vahudin Zugor,

Reinhold Nützel,

Reinhard Kühn

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

the scientific world journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.453

H-Index - 93

eISSN - 2356-6140

pISSN - 1537-744X

DOI - 10.1100/tsw.2008.67

Subject(s) - medicine , radiation therapy , perforation , complication , surgery , urinary bladder , urinary bladder disease , urinary system , materials science , punching , metallurgy

It has been reported that the rate of clinically relevant side effects following curative radiotherapy for primary carcinoma is about 3% for urologic complications. Such complications include hematuria, fibrosis, and cystitis. An extremely rare, but dangerous, medical complication following curative radiotherapy that can also be noted is spontaneous bladder perforation. We present such a case of a 27-year-old patient with spontaneous bladder perforation, who was initially misdiagnosed because of its rarity as well as unspecific clinical and laboratory findings.

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