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Case Reports
. 2008 Apr 20:8:405-8.
doi: 10.1100/tsw.2008.67.

Spontaneous rupture of the urinary bladder 10 years after curative radiotherapy

Apostolos P Labanaris  1 , Vahudin Zugor, Reinhold Reinhold Nützel, Reinhard Kühn
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Spontaneous rupture of the urinary bladder 10 years after curative radiotherapy

Apostolos P Labanaris et al. ScientificWorldJournal. .

Abstract

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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