Possible maternal inheritance of a common obstructive urinary tract anomaly: Report of a case of a woman with multiple urinary tract infections and two sons with posterior urethral valves

Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 962-964

  Trembath, Dimitri G ^a   Rijhsinghani, Asha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Posterior urethral valves; Prenatal diagnosis, ultrasonic; Urethra; Urinary tract infections

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA DISEASE; URETHRA VALVE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT MALFORMATION; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; SIBLINGS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; URETHRA; URETHRAL OBSTRUCTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0036858170     PISSN: 00247758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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