The role of emergency excretory urography in evaluation of blunt, abdominal trauma

Abstract

In our hospital, patients seen for blunt, abdominal trauma have an "emergency" urogram. The results of our review of 209 such patients with complete urographic evaluations indicate that (1) the clinical examination, urinalysis, and plain abdominal roentgenogram do not reliably allow one to predict which patients would show urographic abnormalities and (2) the clinical management of these patients is rarely altered by the knowledge of the results of the urogram.