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Table 1 Bladder injury scale [[12]]

From: Emergency primary repair of grade V bladder neck injury complicating pelvic fracture

Grade*

Injury type

Description of injury

I

Haematoma

Contusion, intramural haematoma

 

Laceration

Partial thickness

II

Laceration

Extraperitoneal bladder wall laceration <2 cm

III

Laceration

Extraperitoneal (≥2 cm) or intraperitoneal (<2 cm) bladder wall laceration

IV

Laceration

Intraperitoneal bladder wall laceration ≥2 cm

V

Laceration

Intraperitoneal or extraperitoneal bladder wall laceration extending into the bladder neck or ureteral orifice (trigone)

  1. Advance one grade for multiple lesions up to Grade III.