ureterocele/fever

A case of ectopic ureterocele in a 50-year-old male is reported. He was admitted to the hospital with complaints of miction pain, cloudy urine and fever attack. He had had pain at voiding from time to time during the past 10 years. The prostata was swollen, edematous and tender. Cystoscopy revealed

Adult ureteroceles are generally known as simple ureteroceles with minimal obstructive effects 1 that can usually be managed endoscopically. Such pathology presented with acute abdominal pain and fever in a 32-year-old man with left renal agenesia, a cranial blind left ureter and left obstructed

Herein we report two cases of complete ureteric duplication associated with ureterocele. A 4-month-old girl with non-visualizing left kidney was hospitalized with complaints of cloudy urine and fever. An antegrade left pyelogram revealed a completely duplicated collecting system; a duplex tortuous

A 2-month-old female infant with an initial symptomatic presentation of fever suffered from persistent febrile urinary tract infections and was treated with antibiotics. Further evaluation including voiding cystourethrography (VCUG), Tc-99m dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) scan, intravenous urography

OBJECTIVE It has been hypothesized that endoscopic decompression of the duplex extravesical ureterocele is necessary to prevent the complications of urinary tract infections and progressive hydronephrosis. This study was performed to test this premise. METHODS Infants younger than 2 weeks with an

Ten neonates and infants with 11 ectopic ureteroceles prospectively underwent transurethral puncture as the primary form of therapy. Of the 10 patients 6 had a prenatal diagnosis of uropathy and 4 presented postnatally with urinary tract infection. One patient had bilateral single system ectopic

A case of cecoureterocele in a 22-month-old girl is reported. She was admitted because of recurrent urinary tract infection associated with fever and dysuria. Excretory urogram showed a left duplex kidney with hydroureteronephrosis of the upper and lower moieties. Although the left upper moiety was

Sixty-nine children younger than 13 years of age with urinary tract infection were evaluated to identify risk factors for treatable urologic problems; i.e. those requiring surgery or prolonged antibiotic prophylaxis. All children had a renal ultrasound, intravenous pyelogram and voiding cystogram