Can a bladder actually burst?

摘要

Only under special circumstances. "I mean, it doesn't just happen to any Joe Schmo walking down the street holding his urine too long," says Scott Eggener, a urologist at the University of Chicago. "But for someone who has had major surgery or cancer or had radiation in his bladder, or whose bladder had been removed and we make them a new bladder out of intestine, then yes-those are situations where the bladder can rupture."