OBJECTIVE Retrocaval ureter is a rare disease which is due to a abnormal development of the inferior cava vein. It usually presents with ureteral obstruction, and surgery is needed for symptomatic cases. METHOD We present a case of retrocaval ureter and a revision of the literature. RESULTS A 9 year-old boy who had consulted for macroscopic hematuria. The intravenous urography (IVU) suggest...

INTRODUCTION Tuberculosis is a common multisystemic infectious disease caused by mycobacterium specie mainly mycobacterium tuberculosis. It affects everyone from Infants to the very aged. Tuberculosis usually affects the lungs (pulmonary tuberculosis) in 75% of cases, but in 25% of cases the other body systems: Central nervous system, lymphatic system, genitourinary system, gastrointestinal sys...

Laparoscopic interventions with the application of vesico-psoas hitch and Boari flap methods for the reconstruction of pronounced ureter defects require considerable physical skill and competence. This case series aims to present our experience in the treatment of long, distal ureteral stenoses via simplified laparoscopic ureteroneocystostomy in 3 male patients in whom the stenoses ranged from ...

OBJECTIVE : To determine ethnic variations of acetabular morphology, and to delineate their relationship with hip osteoarthritis (OA). METHODS : Radiographs of 283 French men, 118 French women, 414 Japanese men and 368 Japanese women, aged 20-79 yr, who underwent intravenous urography were assessed by a single observer for morphometric measurement and hip OA scoring. RESULTS : The standardi...

Iopromide (Schering, Berlin) is a new nonionic, monomeric contrast medium containing three different substituents on the triiodinated benzene ring. Iopromide exhibits low osmolality and viscosity in aqueous solutions of high concentrations. It has been shown to have a remarkably low intravenous toxicity in mice and rats. Neural tolerance was found to be equal to or better than that of metrizami...

Ultrasonography (US), radiography of the kidneys, ureters and bladder (RKUB), intravenous urography (IVU) and especially non-enchanced CT are well established diagnostic modalities in screening patients with urolithiasis, while not always fully diagnostic especially when obstructive uropathy or calculous pyelonephritis are present . Diuretic renal scintigraphy (DRS) can determine obstruction, m...

Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome is a rare developmental failure of Müllerian ducts. Principle clinical features of MRKH syndrome are primary amenorrhoea associated with congenital absence of vagina, uterine anomalies, normal ovaries, 46 XX karyotype with normal female secondary sexual characteristics and frequent association with renal, skeletal, and other congenital anomalies. A...

population is important in the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of renal disease1. Renal size estimation can be performed measuring renal length, renal volume, cortical thickness or volume. The most accurate of these parameters is renal volume2,3, as the shape of kidney varies considerably. Renal length is, however, the most clinically useful parameter, due to its low inter-observer variation...

urine microscopy. Four months before admission her haemoglobin concentration had been 13-5 g/dl, erythrocyte sedimentation rate 28 mm in first hour, and serum creatinine concentration 84 ,tmol/l (0 9 mg/100 ml) and she had been normotensive. Ultrasonography carried out because of abdominal pain showed bilateral hydronephrosis. Intravenous urography showed obstruction on both sides at the same l...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the clinical reliability of laparoscopic treatment for simple renal cysts. METHODS Twenty patients with symptomatic simple renal cysts underwent laparoscopic unroofing of the cysts. Four of these patients also underwent concomitant laparoscopic cholecystectomy because of symptomatic gallbladder stones. RESULTS In all cases the cyst wall was wide...