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Concentric bladder wall thickening due to haemorrhage following suprapubic aspiration: ultrasound and CT features

¹ Department of Diagnostic Imaging, ² Metabolic Unit, Meyer Children's Hospital, Technion Faculty of Medicine, ³ Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Meyer Children's Hospital, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel

Correspondence: Dr O R Brook, Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Rambam Medical Center, Ha'Aliya Hashniya 8, PO Box 9602, Haifa 31096, Israel. E-mail: o_brook{at}rambam.health.gov.il

A 5-week-old baby with coagulopathy due to hepatic mitochondrial disorder developed a bladder haematoma secondary to suprapubic urine aspiration. Unlike previously reported cases, the haematoma manifested itself only as concentric thickening of the bladder wall without an intraluminal component. The ultrasound and CT features are described. Recognition of these findings is important when discussing the differential diagnosis of bladder wall thickening.