JOURNAL CLUB: Incidence of Urinary Leak and Diagnostic Yield of Excretory Phase CT in the Setting of Renal Trauma

The purpose of this article is to calculate the incidence of urinary leak, at both admission and delayed presentation, in the setting of blunt or penetrating renal trauma, and to determine the diagnostic yield of 5-minute excretory phase images on admission CT.Renal injuries were retrospectively identified from the trauma registry at an urban level I trauma center over a 6-year period. Follow-up imaging and clinical and surgical notes were...