Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies

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You have accessJournal of UrologyAdult urology1 Dec 20072007 Guideline for the Management of Ureteral Calculi Glenn M. Preminger, Hans-Göran Tiselius, Dean G. Assimos, Peter Alken, Colin Buck, Michele Gallucci, Thomas Knoll, James E. Lingeman, Stephen Y. Nakada, Margaret Sue Pearle, Kemal Sarica, Christian Türk, and J…

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine the normal range of dimensions for the liver, spleen, and kidney in healthy neonates, infants, and children. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: This prospective study involved 307 pediatric subjects (169 girls and 138 boys) with normal physical or sonographic findings who wer…

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We studied monocyte function in a case of malakoplakia in an attempt to characterize the immune defect in this condition. Our patient's intracellular cyclic-GMP levels were abnormally low (mean +/- S.D. of 0.17 +/- 0.05 pmol per 10(7) malakoplakia cells, versus 0.79 +/- 0.12 in normals) p less than 0.001). After phago…

PURPOSE: During the last decade it has become apparent that prenatally detected, unilateral severe hydronephrosis does not necessarily represent obstruction and may spontaneously improve or resolve postnatally. To define its natural history better we performed a long-term (mean 78 months) followup study of infants wit…

• İBRAHİM ULMAN

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During the last decade it has become apparent that prenatally detected, unilateral severe hydronephrosis does not necessarily represent obstruction and may spontaneously improve or resolve postnatally. To define its natural history better we performed a long-term (mean 78 months) followup study of infants with hydrone…

PURPOSE: Functional voiding problems in children are common. Although pathophysiology and presentation of this clinical entity are well described, there is not yet a generally accepted method of quantitative and standard evaluation of clinical symptoms, and there are few studies addressing the issue of symptom scoring…

• BERK BURGU

PURPOSE: alpha1-Adrenergic blockers have recently been shown to increase the rate of spontaneous passage of distal ureteral stones. We compared efficacy of 3 different alpha1-adrenergic blockers for this purpose. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 114 patients between 18 and 65 years old who had lower ureteral stones w…

• DEVRİM TUĞLU

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• TARIK YONGUÇ

The crucial point for prompt diagnostics, ideal therapeutic approach, and follow-up of hydronephrosis associated with UPJ anomalies in children is the severity of hydronephrosis. Such many hydronephrosis grading systems as AP diameter, SFU, radiology, UTD, and Onen have been developed to evaluate hydronephrosis severi…