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Pelvic Injury

Author: William Perkins, MD
Peer-reviewer: Victor Huang, MD, CAQ-SM
Final Editor: Alex Tomesch, MD

A 45 year old man presents to the Emergency Department with severe suprapubic pain after being thrown off of a forklift at work. On examination, there is significant pelvic tenderness to palpation, and blood at the urethral meatus.

Image Prompts. Image 1: AP view of the pelvis. Case courtesy of Dr. Andrew Dixon, Radiopaedia.org, rID: 31674. Image 2: Retrograde urethrogram. Case courtesy of Dr. Andrew Dixon, Radiopaedia.org, rID: 31648.



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