[Endoscopic treatment of vesico-renal reflux with teflon: personal experience among adults and neurologic patients].
Endoscopic injection of polytetrafluoroethilene (teflon) in the vesicorenal reflux correction was performed for the first time in 1981 by Matouschek. Since 1948 this method was widely employed in the clinical practices by O'Donnel and Puri. We present a review of our experience from march 1985 to february 1996 in 62 normal adult and 5 neurological patients (46 female and 21 male) with vesicorenal reflux and who were treated by means of endoscopic correction. In particular, in two patients who underwent radical cystectomy for bladder tumor, an anatomopathological study on the tissue, were teflon was previously injected, was performed. In this specimens no neoplastic area was found.
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U.O. Urologia Universitaria 2, Dipartimento di Chirurgia, Università di Pisa.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003558:Cystoscopy; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011138:Polytetrafluoroethylene; D001750:Urinary Bladder, Neurogenic / Q000150:complications; D014718:Vesico-Ureteral Reflux / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*
D011138:Polytetrafluoroethylene