The clinical significance of renal caliceal diverticulum in children: relation to vesicoureteral reflux.
Of 250 children with vesicoureteral reflux, 23 had a renal caliceal diverticulum in one or both kidneys. In a third of these 23 children this was the only renal change noted and in the remaining two-thirds other changes of chronic pyelonephritis were seen. The presence of a caliceal diverticulum is evidence that renal damage of some degree is associated with reflux and urinary tract infection, and should be added to existing criteria for investigation of reflux in a child.
D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D004240:Diverticulum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007670:Kidney Calices; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D007682:Kidney Pelvis; D008297:Male; D011704:Pyelonephritis / Q000150:complications; D011859:Radiography; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014718:Vesico-Ureteral Reflux / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging