Uretero-pelvic Junction Obstruction and Posterior Urethral Valve Diagnosed with Contra Lateral Multicystic Dysplastic Kidney: Association Unveiled
PD09-PD10
Correspondence
Amit Kumar Sinha,
Department of Paediatric Surgery, AIIMS Patna, Patna, Bihar, India.
E-mail: dr_amits@yahoo.com
Paediatric obstructive uropathy is defined as any congenital obstruction in the urinary tract severing renal function to any extent. More frequent causes in male counterpart include posterior urethral valve and uretero-pelvic junction obstruction. Multicystic dysplasia of kidney, on the other hand, is an enlarged kidney almost completely replaced by multiple non-communicating cysts. The association of these three entities in the same child could prove fatal and very rare. The article is on the clinical trajectory of a four-year-old male child reporting with these three conditions and the stepwise protocol followed in the management.