Elevated blood urea nitrogen: an aid to the diagnosis of intraperitoneal rupture of the bladder

Autor: Kyu-Hwan Kim, Pravin M. Shah, Benedict M. Reynolds, Gerhart Ramirez-Schon
Rok vydání: 1979
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Zdroj: The Journal of urology. 122(6)
ISSN: 0022-5347
Popis: A retrospective analysis was done on 18 patients with bladder rupture. At the time of hospitalization 9 patients with extraperitoneal rupture had an average blood urea nitrogen of 14.2 ± 2.2mg. per cent, which did not vary from the normal laboratory value of 14.5 ± 7.4mg. per cent, and 9 patients with intraperitoneal rupture had an average blood urea nitrogen of 29.9 ± 7.6mg. per cent, which was significantly different (p
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