All issues > Volume 17(6); 1974
- Original Article
- J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1974;17(6):415-420. Published online June 30, 1974.
- Urologic Knowledge for Pediatrician
- Dal Bong Oh1, Dong Han Kim1
- 1Department of Urology, College of Medicine, Hanyang University,Seoul, Korea
- Abstract
- In infants and young children the pronounced anatomic, physiologic, pathologic, and immunologic
differences from older patient, demand the utmost consideration in every step of urologic diagnosis
and treatment.
Combinations of obstruction and infection constitute over 90% of the major urologicproblems in
infants and children.
Most of these obstructions arecongenital and the architectural and functional damage caused by
the urinary back pressure they engender is usually as important as that caused by complicating infection.
Cancer is now the second ranking cause of death is patients between one and 14 years of age.
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