Spontaneous bladder rupture mimicking a jejuno-ileal perforation

G Chir. 2018 Sep-Oct;34(5):315-318.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Abdomen, Acute / etiology
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Diagnostic Errors*
  • Emergencies
  • Humans
  • Ileal Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Intestinal Perforation / diagnosis*
  • Jejunal Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Laparotomy
  • Male
  • Peritonitis / etiology
  • Rupture, Spontaneous
  • Suture Techniques
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Urinary Bladder Diseases / complications
  • Urinary Bladder Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Urinary Bladder Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Urinary Bladder Diseases / surgery