title: [Routine intravenous pyelography not diagnostically useful in men with lower urinary tract infections].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Evaluation of intravenous urography (IVU) in men with a lower urinary tract infection.
  
  
  METHODS
  Leyenburg Hospital, the Hague, the Netherlands.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective.
  
  
  METHODS
  In 28 male patients with a diagnosed lower urinary tract infection, an IVU was made in order to find causative urogenital tract abnormalities. We determined whether the IVU provided additional diagnostic information.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Only I IVU (4%) of the 28 showed abnormalities (a bladder stone in a patient with epididymitis). The finding was not statistically significant (Fisher's exact test).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In men with a symptomatic lower urinary tract infection showing symptoms such as frequent and burning micturition, whether or not complicated or not by epididymitis, an IVU gives no additional diagnostic information.
authors.affiliation: Ziekenhuis Leyenburg, afd. Urologie, 's-Gravenhage.
authors.forename: E H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Eddes
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Venema
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014567:Urography