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Bladder and Ureteral Imaging

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The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the pathogenesis, clinical presentation, imaging, and treatment of common developmental abnormalities of the bladder and ureter in children. The abnormalities discussed in the first bladder section are bladder duplication, urachal anomalies, bladder diverticula, and neurogenic bladder. The second section related to the ureter includes retrocaval ureter, ureteral polyps, ureteral duplication, ureterocele, ectopic ureters, megaureter, and vesicoureteral reflux. This serves as an overview of many of the clinical entities that can be encountered in a pediatric urology practice, ordered from the relatively less to the most common. Some obvious omissions are imaging of the fetus, urolithiasis, trauma of the bladder and/or ureter, and the syndromes, such as prune belly and exstrophy. These are discussed in their respective chapters found elsewhere in this textbook.

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    Duong D. Tu MD & Carlos R. Estrada Jr. MD

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    Jeanne S. Chow MD

  3. Department of Radiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave., HUNN 390, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

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Tu, D.D., Chow, J.S., Estrada, C.R. (2014). Bladder and Ureteral Imaging. In: Palmer, L., Palmer, J. (eds) Pediatric and Adolescent Urologic Imaging. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8654-1_14

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