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Kidney and Urotrauma

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In trauma patients, the genitourinary system is involved in around 10% of cases. Such injuries can be related to considerable morbidity and mortality. Treatment has evolved over the last few decades shifting toward a conservative approach also defined nonoperative management (NOM). Selection of patients amenable to NOM must be tailored on several factors, patients (hemodynamic status, anatomical aspect of the damage and associated injuries), and center (availability of ICU, interventional radiology, etc.) dependent. Operative management remains fundamental in unstable patients and in some specific patterns of lesions.

As for all other traumatic conditions, management of renal and urologic trauma should be multidisciplinary, including trauma surgeons, radiologist, emergency, and ICU physicians and urologist.

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Coccolini, F., Cremonini, C., Chiarugi, M. (2023). Kidney and Urotrauma. In: Coccolini, F., Catena, F. (eds) Textbook of Emergency General Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22599-4_98

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