epispadias/ataxia

The paper reports examination, treatment and follow-up data on 8 children aged 4-13 suffering from total enuresis, who failed previous conservative or operative treatment. Upon examination enuresis was attributed to trauma or malformations of the neck of the urinary bladder (NUB) or urethra (in 2

Sixteen patients, 10 boys and 6 girls with severe urinary incontinence due to congenital malformations, were treated by free autogenous muscle transplantation. The mean follow-up period was 2.3 years. In 10 patients the results were good, implying increase in functional bladder capacity and

The word "enuresis" is the greek word for incontinence. Enuresis has to be considered as a symptom and not as a disease. We have to keep in mind that urine leaking may be due to an anatomical anomaly (epispadias, ectopic ureter, spinal coral lesion, urethral obstacle) in which case treatment of the

The definition of childhood urinary incontinence, used here, is leakage of at least 1 ml of urine, at least once a week, in a child from 5 years of age. The types of incontinence are defined as detrusor incontinence (daytime urge incontinence and night-time enuresis), sphincter incontinence