title: Urodynamic and electrophysiological testing in pediatric neurourology.
abstract: In our institution, children with voiding disorders are submitted to a detailed evaluation comprising a careful clinical examination, laboratory tests, imaging (kidney ultrasonography and voiding cystourethrography) and urodynamic tests. Depending on the etiology of voiding dysfunction, children are subjected to a non invasive or an invasive urodynamic evaluation. Non invasive urodynamic testing comprises a free urinary flowmetry associated or not with an EMG recording of the pelvic floor. Invasive urodynamic testing consists of a pressure-flow study or a video-XR-urodynamic test. In rare instances, genitourinary electrophysiological investigations will be performed. Herein we describe these different urodynamic and electrophysiologic tests.
authors.affiliation: Cliniques Saint-Luc, Divisions of Urology, University of Louvain, Bruxelles.
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Opsomer
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Clapuyt
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: De Groote
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Van Cangh
authors.forename: F X
authors.initials: FX
authors.lastname: Wese
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002933:Cineradiography; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D004576:Electromyography; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000503:physiopathology; D011312:Pressure; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D012212:Rheology; D012677:Sensation / Q000502:physiology; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014521:Urethra / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D001750:Urinary Bladder, Neurogenic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D014554:Urination / Q000502:physiology; D014555:Urination Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D014563:Urodynamics / Q000502:physiology*; D014743:Videotape Recording