[Urinary retention in a child secondary to urethral uric lithiasis].
Urinary lithiasis in children is less frequent than in adults. The incidence of uric acid lithiasis in adult population is between 5 to 39% of all lithiasis. Only a third part of the urinary calculi in infancy are compound of uric acid. The most frequent uric lithiasis is that so called endemic. Usually appears in the lower urinary tract and it is not related to metabolic disturbances. We present the exceptional case of an Arabian boy 4 years old who came to the Hospital because he suffered urinary retention secondary to the fixation of uric acid stone in bulbous urethra. The treatment performed was the external urethrotomy and we could removed the stone. We emphasize that the postoperative control was done by uroflowmetry. After one year, the result is satisfactory.
Departamento de Pediatría y Cirugía Pediátrica, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid.
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Cerdá
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Luque Mialdea
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Martín-Crespo
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Arrojo Vila
D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014527:Uric Acid / Q000032:analysis; D014545:Urinary Calculi / Q000737:chemistry / Q000150:complications*; D016055:Urinary Retention / Q000209:etiology*
D014527:Uric Acid
Retención urinaria en el niño secundaria a litiasis úrica uretral.