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Postoperative Imaging and Findings

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Pediatric Urogenital Radiology

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The practice of pediatric urology and uroradiology has changed a great deal in recent years. The increase in the clinical use of antenatal ultrasonography (US) and its ability to provide anatomic information about the developing fetus has led to the growth and development of perinatal urology. There has been a significant increase in the number of genitourinary anomalies diagnosed in the prenatal and newborn period, and greater attention is paid to postnatal assessment, diagnosis, and management, including follow-up imaging of these infants. The urological conditions requiring surgery are varied, but the abnormalities that require the most frequent surgical intervention are those that give rise to urinary tract dilatation (UTD). This chapter aims at discussing the short- and long-term postoperative follow-up of common situations including assessment of complications and long-term monitoring; rarer conditions or aspects that are addressed in other chapters of this book (e.g., prune-belly syndrome, renal transplantation, etc.) are omitted and not addressed again.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Division of Pediatric Radiology, University Hospital LKH Graz, Graz, Austria

    Michael Riccabona

  2. Department of Pediatric Urology, Hospital of the Sisters of Charity, Linz, Austria

    Josef Oswald FEAPU

  3. Departments of Radiology, Temple Street Children’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

    Veronica Donoghue FRCR, FFR.RCSI

  4. National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, Dublin, Ireland

    Veronica Donoghue FRCR, FFR.RCSI

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Riccabona, M., Oswald, J., Donoghue, V. (2018). Postoperative Imaging and Findings. In: Riccabona, M. (eds) Pediatric Urogenital Radiology. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39202-8_29

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