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Urethral Trauma

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This chapter provides a brief overview and algorithm-based approach to the diagnosis and initial management of urethral trauma.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Cheyenne C. Sonntag

  2. Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Susan MacDonald

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  1. Department of Surgery, Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, USA

    Salvatore Docimo Jr.

  2. Department of Surgery, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Eric M. Pauli

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Sonntag, C.C., MacDonald, S. (2019). Urethral Trauma. In: Docimo Jr., S., Pauli, E. (eds) Clinical Algorithms in General Surgery . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98497-1_165

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