Question 137 · LEK · Hysterectomy

A patient presents at the gynecological outpatient clinic on the 12th day after the radical hysterectomy due to endometrial hyperplasia with atypia. She complains of a constant outflow of urine from the vagina. Which of the following should be suspected?

  1. A. overactive bladder.
  2. B. exercise-induced urinary incontinence caused by the impairment of ligaments of the uterus.
  3. C. mixed urinary incontinence.
  4. D. evacuation of accumulated lymph fluid through the vaginal stump.
  5. E. vesicovaginal fistula.
Hint

Continuous rather than situational leakage of urine through the vagina after pelvic surgery suggests an abnormal anatomical communication.

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