No small slam: increasing incidents of genitourinary injury from toilets and toilet seats

• Published in: BJU international Vol. 112; no. 3; pp. 398 - 403
• Main Authors: Glass, Allison S., Bagga, Herman S., Tasian, Gregory E., McGeady, James B., McCulloch, Charles E., Blaschko, Sarah D., McAninch, Jack W., Breyer, Benjamin N.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Wiley-Blackwell 01.08.2013; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Biological and medical sciences; Child; Child, Preschool; Genitalia - injuries; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Nephrology. Urinary tract diseases; penile crush injury; Penis - injuries; toilet; Toilet Facilities; toilet seat; United States - epidemiology; Wounds and Injuries - epidemiology; United States; toilet seat; Nephrology; Penile trauma; toilet; Injury; penile crush injury; Signaling lymphocyte activation molecule; Lesion; Crush; Urology; Incidence

Objective To describe the epidemiology of genitourinary (GU) injury from toilets that present to USA Emergency rooms (ERs). Materials and Methods The National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) is a stratified probability sample of hospital ER visits for USA consumer product‐related injur...