title: Acute urinary retention as a result of a bladder diverticulum.
abstract: An 11-month-old infant presented with acute urinary retention. He had presented 3 months earlier with complaints of an enlarging abdominal mass that was initially diagnosed as a mesenteric cyst on ultrasonography. Voiding cystourethrogram revealed a large bladder diverticulum. Bladder diverticulum should be a differential diagnosis in children, especially male, presenting with urinary retention, fever and an abdominal mass.
authors.affiliation: Aga Khan University Medical College, Department of Radiology, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Fawad
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Aslam
authors.forename: Junaid Ali
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Syed
authors.forename: Naila
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nadeem
authors.forename: Shabbir
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hussain
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D004240:Diverticulum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008639:Mesenteric Cyst / Q000175:diagnosis; D011859:Radiography; D015898:Tomography Scanners, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography; D001745:Urinary Bladder Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D016055:Urinary Retention / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*