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The fields of urology and nephrology are inextricably linked in the pediatric population.
Approximately one third of patients with renal failure have congenital renal disease, a significant proportion of which is related to obstruction and/or vesicoureteric reflux.
While we expect that many of these cases will be detected by prenatal ultrasound, there still exist those unusual patients who defy our expectations and come to our doorsteps with often time’s dramatic presentations right from the textbook. Failure to thrive in infants, growth failure, and bone pain from rickets/renal osteodystrophy constitute some of these unusual presentations.
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Listman, J.A., Schurman, S. (2014). Nephrologic Aspects of Urologic Disease. In: Rabinowitz, R., Hulbert, W., Mevorach, R. (eds) Pediatric Urology for the Primary Care Physician. Current Clinical Urology. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-243-8_39
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