Urinary tract in schoolgirls with covert bacteriuria.
During screening of 16,800 primary schoolgirls, aged 4-12 years, in Cardiff and Oxford, significant bacteriuria was found in 294 (1-7%). Intravenous urography and micturating cystography were performed in 246 of these girls. The urinary tract was abnormal in 47%. Pyelonephritis with or without vesicoureteric reflux was present in 26% and reflux without renal abnormality in a further 16%. The prevalence of pyelonephritis and reflux was independent of age. With few exeptions kidneys without pyelonephritic scars appeared to be normal in size, even when ureteric reflux was present.
D001437:Bacteriuria / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002921:Cicatrix; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006984:Hypertrophy; D007668:Kidney / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D008403:Mass Screening; D011704:Pyelonephritis / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology; D012572:School Health Services; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014546:Urinary Catheterization; D014567:Urography; D014718:Vesico-Ureteral Reflux / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology; D014852:Wales