1. Acute perirenal extravasation of urine in an infant with non-refluxing megaureter.
- Author
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Beetz, Rolf, Stein, Raimund, Rohatsch, Petra, Brzezinska, Rita, and Thüroff, Jochen W.
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URINARY obstructions , *NEWBORN infants , *ASCITES , *GENETIC disorders - Abstract
Perirenal extravasation of urine is a rare event in congenital uropathies, mostly observed perinatally in the case of infravesical obstruction. We describe a male infant with a primary non-refluxing obstructive left megaureter who developed an acute perirenal extravasation and ascites at the age of 4 weeks. After temporary upper urinary diversion, ureterocystoneostomy was successfully performed. Intraoperatively, the distal ureter showed an extremely narrow lumen over a distance of 3 cm. In the current literature, postnatal management of primary megaureters is preferably conservative. Our patient demonstrates an extremely rare complication demanding early surgical intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004