Spontaneous bladder rupture mimicking a jejuno-ileal perforation
Monsellato, I.; Morello, A.; Argenio, G.; Canepa, M.C.; Lenti, L.M.; Priora, F.
Il Giornale di Chirurgia 34(5): 315-318
2018
ISSN/ISBN: 0391-9005 PMID: 30444481 Document Number: 697476
Spontaneous urinary bladder perforation is a very rare disease. The main cause of urinary perforation, indeed, is a damage to the urinary bladder wall by blunt or penetrating trauma. There are only few idiopathic spontaneous rupture of urinary bladder (ISRUB) cases reported in the literature. Pre-operative diagnosis is very difficult due to similar symptoms, laboratory and imaging findings of a gastrointestinal perforation that is usually excluded intraoperatively. Herein we report a case of a 91-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a spontaneous bladder perforation mimicking an ileal perforation.