bladder exstrophy/urea

OBJECTIVE Gastrocystoplasty has been performed as an alternative to enterocystoplasty to increase bladder capacity and/or compliance while avoiding the complications associated with the use of bowel segments. Gastrocystoplasty is not without metabolic and physiological complications, such as the

Gastrocytoplasty was undertaken for 5 patients with bladder dysfunction and incontinence caused by neurogenic bladder in 3 cases, bladder exstrophy in 1 case and trauma in 1 case respectively. The age of the patients ranged from 5 years through 14 years at the operation. Decreased renal function was

OBJECTIVE To review our experience with four pregnancies during the past 5 years with special attention to the diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of ureterosigmoidostomy. Pregnancy in women with ureterosigmoidostomy is a rare condition that differs in many ways from pregnancies in women with other

Bladder stones were diagnosed in 22 children and young adults at The Children's Hospital, Boston, from 1969 to 1985. One half of the patients were less than 12 years old (mean, 11.9 years). One or more lithogenic factors were implicated in all but two. The most common causes were the presence of an