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US demonstration of pyelitis and ureteritis in children

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The authors report a new ultrasonic sign of urinary tract infection in children: thickening of the renal pelvis and/or ureteral wall. This thickening as encountered in 10 children, (10 months to 12 years) all with urinary tract infection, appears to result from inflammatory changes and to correspond to a sonographic sign of pyelitis and ureteritis. These alterations of the walls are similar to striations and folds described in this pathology on intravenous pyelograms. The thickening was the only sign of abnormality of the urinary tract in two cases; it was observed without reflux in four cases. The demonstration of this pattern should lead to further uroradiological investigations and to appropriate treatment.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Cliniques Universitaires de Bruxelles, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Y. Thoua

  2. Department of Urology, Cliniques Universitaires de Bruxelles, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    C. C. Schulman

  3. Department of Radiology, Hôpital Calmette, Lille, France

    V. Marconi & L. Lemaitre

  4. Department of Radiology, Cliniques Universitaires de Bruxelles Hôpital Erasme Université Libre de Bruxelles, 808 Route de Lennik, B-1070, Bruxelles, Belgium

    E. F. Avni, D. Van Gansbeke & C. Matos

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Avni, E.F., Van Gansbeke, D., Thoua, Y. et al. US demonstration of pyelitis and ureteritis in children. Pediatr Radiol 18, 134–139 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02387557

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