López-Trapero IA, Reyes-García I, Torres-Medina E, Zapata-González A, Muñoz-Islas E

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

The case of a seventeen-month-old female patient sent to the urology service of the Centro Médico Nacional del Noreste in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, for right hydronephrosis is presented.
There was important medical history of right hydronephrosis detected by ultrasound at 27 weeks of gestation that persisted at 31 weeks seen in repeat ultrasound. A third ultrasound image was taken at 14 days of extrauterine life, showing right hydronephrosis and ipsilateral ureter dilatation with left ureterocele. At 6 months of age another ultrasound study revealed the same findings.
Prenatal hydronephrosis is the most commonly detected prenatal genitourinary abnormality. Differential diagnosis can range from a self-limited condition with no clinical significance (physiological hydronephrosis with normal postnatal ultrasound) to conditions that require surgery or that cause renal destruction.

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