SPONTANEOUS BLADDER RUPTURE AFTER RADIOTHERAPY

Ilke Onur KAZAZ, Goktug ATNALLAR, Seher Nazli KAZAZ, Fatih COLAK

Bulletin of Urooncology - 2026;25(2):59-61

Karadeniz Technical University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Urology, Trabzon, Türkiye

 

Radiotherapy, applied to the lower abdomen and pelvis may result in urological complications due to damage to surrounding healthy tissues. A seventy-year-old male patient who underwent radical prostatectomy and who received 35 fractions of radiotherapy (2 Gy per fraction, total of 70 Gy) to the prostate bed using an intensity-modulated radiotherapy technique for biochemical recurrence presented to our clinic with haematuria. Cystoscopy revealed perforation in the left lateral wall of the bladder.