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Sports-related genitourinary trauma in the male athlete

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Genitourinary trauma is infrequent with regard to sports-related injuries and is frequently overlooked in the acute setting because other life-threatening or serious injuries take precedence. Once the patient has been stabilized, the radiologist plays a key role in the diagnosis of genitourinary trauma. The most commonly injured genitourinary organ is the kidney followed by the bladder and the urethra. Therefore, one should be familiar with imaging signs of genitourinary trauma in the athletic patient in order for these patients to be triaged appropriately. This article is a review of the spectrum of genitourinary trauma caused by sports-related injuries.

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Special thanks are given to Shanna Mellnick for her creation of the illustrations and Sarah Klingenberger for her assistance with the manuscript.

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  1. Department of Imaging Sciences, University of Rochester, 648 Elmwood Ave, Rochester, NY, USA

    Refky Nicola

  2. Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, USA

    Christine O. Menias

  3. Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA

    Vincent Mellnick, Sanjeev Bhalla, Costa Raptis & Cary Siegel

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Nicola, R., Menias, C.O., Mellnick, V. et al. Sports-related genitourinary trauma in the male athlete. Emerg Radiol 22, 157–168 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10140-014-1277-2

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