We studied to find out the differences in management of neurogenic bladder dysfunction between traumatic and non-traumatic spinal cord lesion, and of those differences were existed what kind of factors could contribute to those differences.

The subjects of this study were 32 spinal cord lesion patients with neurogenic bladder dysfunction(11 patients of traumatic group and 21 patients of non-traumatic group) who had been admitted to Seoul National University Hospital from March, 1989 to July, 1991.

The results were as follows:

1) The period between initiation of management and establishment of balanced bladder in non-traumatic group was shorter than that of traumatic group.

2) The outcome of non-traumatic group was better than that of traumatic group in aspect of final voiding type.

3) We think that those major factors which contributed to the good results in non-traumatic group were relatively good preservation of filling sense and less incidence of detrusor shincter dyssynergia.