Specimen of Congenital Hydronephrosis

Congenital hydronephrosis: disease or condition?

The aim of this paper is to address the dilemmas of the paediatric surgeon when facing an isolated, unilateral, congenital hydronephrosis and discuss the strategic options for the management of this condition. Congenital hydronephrosis, the most commonly diagnosed uropathy in children, is usually a benign and self-resolving condition. Nonobstructive hydronephrosis does not require operative tre...

Congenital Hydronephrosis in a New-born Infant

The patient, a girl of seventeen years, was admitted to the MIater Infirmnorum Hospital on 3rd November, 1933, as a case of acute appendicitis. She gave a typical history of abdominial pain follovwed by nausea and vomiting, the pain later settling down in the right iliac fossa, where, on admissioni, she was tender and rigid. Immecliate operation was decided onl. At operationi niothing unusual w...

A case of bilateral congenital hydro-ureter and hydronephrosis.

A Note on Congenital Dilatation of the Ureters with Hydronephrosis

?cases were practically identical, differing only in degree. The most marked case was that in the child dying youngest, but this was the one complicated by spina bifida. In all three there was marked hypertrophy of the bladder; the ureters were dilated and tortuous, and the kidneys hydronephrotic. In all of them a catheter was easily passed post mortem, and no evidence of a urethral valve or ot...

Etio-pathogenic and morphological correlations in congenital hydronephrosis.

Hydronephrosis, "distension in varying degrees of pelvis and calyces, accompanied by progressive atrophy of renal parenchyma due to obstruction in urinary flow", is an apparently simple reno-urinary disease, but, in reality, by association of its own characters with those conferred by causative lesions, becomes of a significant complexity. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the pluriva...