Robert L. Lebowitz,
M.D. Children' s Hospital, Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts
Posterior Urethral Valves
This 2-month-old infant bot presented with urinary ascites
(Figure1)
and
(Figure2).
Note that the gass filled loops of bowel "float" on the ascites.
A Foley catheter was placed. A VCUG showed a thick-walled bladder wwith elevation of the base of the bladder above the pelvic floor
(Figure3)
and a hypertrophied interureteric ridge
(Figure4).
He had posterior urethral valves and the Foley balloon had been inflated in the posterior urethra above valves
(Figure5).
He underwent fulguration of the valves.