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Pathological Changes in the Detrusor After Spinal Cord Injury

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Among the many types of spinal fractures reported, thoracolumbar fracture is the most common; it is characterized by medullary cone injury, functional impairment of the sensory and motor nerves and atonic bladder [1–3]. Atonic bladder leads to severe urinary retention, refractory urinary infections, and even chronic renal failure, making it the main cause of death from medullary injury [4, 5]. Therefore, it is important to restore self-controlled urination in these patients, in order to decrease the mortality rate and improve their quality of life.

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  1. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Shanghai Sixth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

    Xianyou Zheng

  2. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Changzheng Hospital, The Second Military Medical University, Fengyang Road 415, Shanghai, 200003, People’s Republic of China

    Chunlin Hou M.D.

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Zheng, X., Hou, C. (2014). Pathological Changes in the Detrusor After Spinal Cord Injury. In: Hou, C. (eds) Functional Bladder Reconstruction Following Spinal Cord Injury via Neural Approaches. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7766-8_4

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