Diagnostic Imaging of the Kidney and Urinary Tract in Children

All unsuccessful revolutions are the same, but each successful one is different in its own distinctive way. The reason why revolutions occur is that new forces attain increasing significance and classic institutions are incapable of accomodating these forces. Such has been the pattern of events in the English, American and French revolutions. These successful revolutions produced a new dynamic and new perspectives. One English revolutionary put this succinctly: "Let us be doing, but let us be united in doing". This book sets out what is a revolution in. the perspectives of diagnostic imaging of the kidney and urinary tract. Forces which have brought about this revolution are the advent of reliable techniques in radioisotope studies, ultrasonics and computerized tomographic (CT) scanning. This last modality carries with it specific problems for routine paediatric work and its role in the study of kidney and urinary tract problems is discrete and circumscribed. However, in conjunction with classic radiology, each of these techniques yields information of a different type and so a synthesis of data accrues. Front Matter....Pages I-XIX The Clinical Context....Pages 1-9 Investigatory Techniques....Pages 10-34 Obstruction in the Urinary Tract....Pages 35-61 Urinary Infection and Vesico-Ureteral Reflux....Pages 62-73 Nephrocalcinosis — Nephrolithiasis — Urolithiasis....Pages 74-82 Innate Abnormalities of Renal Development....Pages 83-107 Vesical and Urethral Problems....Pages 108-124 Acute Kidney Lesions....Pages 125-135 Renal, Abdominal and Pelvic Masses....Pages 136-165 Adrenal and Gonadal Lesions....Pages 166-174 Systemic Hypertension....Pages 175-185 Bone Changes in Chronic Renal Failure....Pages 186-191 Full Circle: An Epilogue....Pages 192-201 Back Matter....Pages 203-208