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Pediatric Genitourinary Intervention

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Pediatric Uroradiology

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Abstract

Percutaneous techniques offer several advantages over open surgery in the treatment of many pediatric genitourinary diseases. The pediatric interventionalist routinely treats patients with conscious sedation on an outpatient basis that would require general anesthesia and lengthy hospital admissions if treated surgically. The minimally invasive nature of percutaneous therapy also results in cost reduction. The outcomes of percutaneous techniques have now been established as equal to or better than the corresponding surgical technique in many instances. In spite of this, pediatric genitourinary intervention has grown relatively slowly over the past decade. Limited growth in this area is likely due to a variety of factors, especially the preference of urologists to perform combined percutaneous and surgical procedures in the operating room. Most referrals to pediatric interventional radiologists are cases that are difficult to treat operatively or with endoscopic techniques. Consequently, a minority of children is referred for routine procedures.

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  1. Phoenix Children’s Hospital, 1919 East Thomas Road, Phoenix, Arizona, 85016, USA

    Richard B. Towbin MD (Radiologist-in-Chief)

  2. Department of Radiology, Mercy Hospital, 144 State Street, Portland, ME, 04101, USA

    Christopher Kuhn MD

  3. Division of Interventional Radiology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA

    Anne Marie Cahill MD (Head)

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Towbin, R.B., Kuhn, C., Cahill, A.M. (2008). Pediatric Genitourinary Intervention. In: Fotter, R. (eds) Pediatric Uroradiology. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-33005-9_26

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