Urinary tract in schoolgirls with covert bacteriuria.
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چکیده
During screening of 16,800 primary schoolgirls, aged 4-12 years, in Cardiff and Oxford, significant bacteriuria was found in 294 (1-7%). Intravenous urography and micturating cystography were performed in 246 of these girls. The urinary tract was abnormal in 47%. Pyelonephritis with or without vesicoureteric reflux was present in 26% and reflux without renal abnormality in a further 16%. The prevalence of pyelonephritis and reflux was independent of age. With few exeptions kidneys without pyelonephritic scars appeared to be normal in size, even when ureteric reflux was present.
منابع مشابه
Covert bacteriuria of childhood. A clinical and epidemiological study.
Savage, D. C. L., Wilson, M. I., McHardy, M., Dewar, D. A. E., and Fee, W. M. (1973). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 48, 8. Covert bacteriuria of childhood: a clinical and epidemiological study. A 4-year screening programme for covert bacteriuria in Dundee primary schoolgirl entrants showed a prevalence of 1 6% and an annual incidence of 0 °9%. Among 109 children with bacteriuria, 70% had sy...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Archives of disease in childhood
دوره 50 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1975