Mild pyelectasis diagnosed by prenatal ultrasound is not a predictor of urinary tract morbidity in childhood

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1239-1247

  Damen Elias, Henny A M ^a,b   Luijnenburg, Saskia E ^a   Visser, Gerard H E ^a   Stoutenbeek, Philip H ^a   De Jong, Tom P V M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Childhood; Morbidity; Prenatal; Pyelectasis; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILDHOOD; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GENDER; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY PELVIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION; MORBIDITY; PARENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREDICTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELECTASIS; PYELOPLASTY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEFECATION; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY PELVIS; MALE; PARENTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; URINATION DISORDERS;

EID: 31544459207     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.1312     Document Type: Article

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