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1: Radiology. 1994 Mar;190(3):695-7. Related Articles, Links

Bladder diverticula in children.

Blane CE, Zerin JM, Bloom DA.

Department of Radiology, C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI

48109-0252.

PURPOSE: The frequency, number, and underlying associations of bladder

diverticula were studied in a pediatric population. MATERIALS AND METHODS:

Eighty-five children with bladder diverticula (31 girls and 54 boys) were

retrospectively identified in a pediatric genitourinary data base of 5,084

children.

RESULTS: Primary bladder diverticula were seen in 20 children with

vesicoureteral

reflux and 14 children without reflux. Fifty-one of the 85 children (60%) had

associated neurogenic dysfunction of the bladder (n = 26), outlet obstruction (n

= 14), or a syndrome (n = 9) or were postoperative (n = 2). A single child of

the 26 with multiple bladder diverticula had no associated condition.

CONCLUSION: In this population, bladder diverticula were found in 1.7% of the

children. The presence of more than one diverticulum on a side was usually

associated

with neurogenic dysfunction of the bladder, bladder outlet obstruction, or

syndromes such as , Menkes, prune-belly, or Ehlers-Danlos type 9

syndromes.

PMID: 8115613 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]