PURPOSE Acute urinary retention in children is a relatively rare entity. There are a variety of causes that are poorly defined in the literature. We review our cases of acute urinary retention in children at three major pediatrics centers in Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between 1996 and 2003, children (up to 14 years old) who had been referred due to acute urinary retention were examined. Urin...

Acute urinary retention in women is a rarely seen phenomenon due to pharmacological, neuromuscular, anatomical, functional and infectious causes. Human papillomaviruses causing condyloma acuminata is one of the rarely reported viral infectious cause of acute urinary retention in case reports. A 45-year-old woman with acute urinary retention was found to have a round solid lesion on external ure...

Mechanical obstruction by hematocolpos can result in acute urinary retention.(1) Imperforate hymen is a rare condition that presents mainly with primary amenorrhea, cyclic abdominal pain and rarely, urine retention in pubertal girls.(2) This is a 23-year old female who presented with acute urine retention. She had history of previous vaginal repair of imperforate hymen. On examination patient w...

We present a case of a 47-month-old female suffering from acute urinary bladder neck obstruction and bilateral hydronephrosis secondary to a fecaloma. Fecaloma is defined as an accumulation of inspissated feces in the colon or rectum giving the appearance of an abdominal mass. A fecaloma can be developed by diverse causes and the causes of the fecaloma in this case were septum reformation after...