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Many grading systems have been proposed for urethral injury, but they all suffer from the lack of high-level evidence and are merely based on the authors’ experience [1]. One of the oldest is the Colapinto and McCallum classification proposed in 1977, based on retrograde urethrography. It was exclusively proposed for the posterior urethra [2] (Table 29.1).
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AL-Mamari, S.A. (2023). Classification of Urethral Injury. In: Urogenital Trauma: A Practical Guide. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6171-9_29
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