Citation

Hodge I, Adam A, Chennapragada M, Tiu A, Deshpande AV. Urology 2018; 114: 181-183.

Affiliation

Department of Paediatric Urology, John Hunter Children's Hospital; Priority Research centre GrowupWell, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.urology.2017.12.021

PMID

29305941

Abstract

Herein we describe a case of a 14-year-old with straddle injury to the base of the penis, sustained during an indoor rock climbing accident, who presented with severe urethrragia. Urethral injury was confirmed with retrograde urethrography. The patient became haemodynamically unstable from persistent blood loss, and corporal arterial injury was diagnosed on CT angiography. The urethraggia was successfully controlled with angioembolisation. The unique aspects of this case were the challenges in establishing the diagnosis on the background of the abnormal presentation of vascular injury of blood loss as opposed to painless priapism.

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Language: en