TREATMENT OF COMMON ACUTE POISONING. By Henry Matthew and A. A. H. Lawson. (Pp. vii+ 151. 16s). Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1967. THIS concise well indexed book should be in the hands of all casualty officers. It is written by two general physicians who have had extensive experience of the treatment of acute poisoning at the Poisoning Treatment Centre at the Edinburgh Royal Infir...

Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is the retrograde flow of urine from the bladder into the ureter. A normally functioning ureteral vesical junction (UVJ) allows for the smooth expulsion of urine from the ureter into the bladder without regurgitation of urine back up the ureter, either during bladder filling or upon voiding, If this valvular mechanism fails, from whatever etiology, urine flowing back...

Detailed antenatal sonography was performed on 18766 pregnant women between 1990 and 1994. Antenatal hydronephrosis, defined as an antero-posterior diameter of the renal pelvis (APPD) greater than 5 mm, was detected in 100 cases (0.59%). Sixty four infants had postnatal hydronephrosis at one and/or six weeks after delivery; 21 of these had urological anomalies. Twelve infants had vesico-ureteri...

James Marion Sims [5] developed a surgical cure for ruptures of the wall separating the bladder from the vagina [6] during labor, ruptures called vesico-vaginal fistulas, and he developed techniques and tools used to improve reproductive examinations and health care for women in the US during the nineteenth century. Sims's lateral examination position allowed doctors to better see the vaginal c...