OBJECTIVES Determine the efficiency of the Acucise catheter in the treatment of ureteropelvic junction (UPJ) obstruction. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between May 1997 and April 1999, 30 patients with primary or secondary ureteropelvic junction obstruction were treated using Acucise endopyelotomy catheter. The diagnosis was based on intravenous urography and diuretic renography. None of the patients...

The placenta has been considered an mice. Both maternal red cells and lymanatomical barrier which prevents maphocytes labeled, respectively, with ratemal rejection of the fetal allograft. This diochromium and tritiated thymidine view is no longer tenable since, in one have been detected in newborn mice. particular inbred strain of mouse, materThis phenomenon appears independent nal blood cells ...

Radioisotope renography provides, from the individual kidney, a graphic record of the renal vascularity, of the excretory funtion of the tubular cells, and of the evacuatory capability of the tubules and the kidney pelvis. By the use of additional scintillation counters, an index of the rate of extraction of the isotope from the blood and its rate of accumulation in the bladder can also be obta...

Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine ñ September December 2007 of a colorectal or bladder malignancy [7]. Most vesicoenteric fistulas in children are congenital and associated with anorectal malformation or cloacal anomalies [8]. The clinical manifestations are principally urological in the form of recurrent urinary infection and terminal pneumaturia. The most useful diagnostic techniques are c...

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...