Digital subtraction angiography of the pelvis is a technique that allows the detection of pelvic trauma or pelvic tumors. This is a modern imaging diagnostic method performed at many medical facilities and hospitals.

Urinary retention is a condition in which there is urine in the bladder but the person cannot urinate or urine is not completely excreted and remains in the bladder. Urinary retention is a condition in traditional Chinese medicine called Long (Lung) closure.