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Nineteen children treated for posterior urethral obstruction due to congenital valve in the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City, Nigeria, over a 9-year period have been analysed. Their ages ranged from birth to 12 years. Results show that associated kidney pathology may be irreversible even after successful excision of the valve. This determines the final prognosis, which is worse the younger the child at presentation.
Assuntos
Fatores Etários , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Eletrocoagulação , Seguimentos , Humanos , Hidronefrose/terapia , Lactente , Recém-Nascido , Masculino , Nigéria , Prognóstico , Estudos Prospectivos , Uretra/anormalidades , Obstrução Uretral/cirurgia , Cateterismo Urinário , Retenção Urinária/terapia , Transtornos Urinários/terapiaRESUMO
One thousand; eight hundred and ninety-six children aged 6 to 12 years were examined for undescended testis. The incidence was found to be 0.8in the 6 year olds; and also in the 7 and 8 years groups. The overall incidence was 0.4. A differential intrascrotal descent rate was also discovered between the right and left testes; by observations of position of testis in scrotum in each age group: thus while at the age of 6 years 9.4of the left testes and 6of the right testes had touched the base of the scrotum; at the age of 12 years 88.3of the left testes but 95.7of the right testes lay in the base of the scrotum
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CriptorquidismoRESUMO
Children between the ages of 6 years and 12 years numbering 2200, were examined for general physical development and external abnormality to correlate these anomalies with frequency of undescended testis. Whereas the overall frequency of undescended testis in this population was 0.5%, this condition was present in 1% of boys with peri-umbilical hernia. Undescended testis should be looked for in children with external congenital anomalies, particularly of the anterior abdominal wall.