JOURNAL OF TRAUMA-INJURY INFECTION AND CRITICAL CARE, cilt.71, sa.3, ss.687-693, 2011 (SCI-Expanded)
Background: Microscopic hematuria is an extremely important sign in blunt abdominal trauma (BAT) patients. Controversies still exist in the literature on whether microscopic hematuria is a sign of intra-abdominal extrarenal organ injury and is an indication for radiographic assessment of BAT patients. In this study, a new BAT rat model was developed, and we tried to determine the relationships between microscopic hematuria and extrarenal intra-abdominal organ injury.