TY  - JOUR
T1  - COngenital valves of the posterior urethra
AU  - KRETSCHMER HL, PIERSON LE
Y1  - 1929/10/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpedi.1929.01930100124014
JO  - American Journal of Diseases of Children
SP  - 804
EP  - 817
VL  - 38
IS  - 4
N2  - The importance of the obstructive uropathies is being stressed more and more as time goes on. The danger resulting when these obstructions are not recognized and removed is fully realized today, complete and accurate urologic study in urinary cases having enlightened physicians as to the gravity of this type of lesion. Formerly, the study of obstructive uropathies dealt only with cases in the adult, the possibility and frequency of this lesion occurring during infancy and childhood being completely neglected. And even in adults obstructions of this nature were overlooked, except in those in whom the condition was well advanced and who showed the gravest injury to the higher urinary tract, the result being that when the obstruction was recognized, surgical relief was out of the question.The type of obstruction is somewhat different in the child from what it is in the adult. In the adult male benign hypertrophy of
SN  - 0096-8994
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1929.01930100124014
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1929.01930100124014
ER  -