PEDIATRICS Vol. 98 No. 1 July 1996, pp. 108-114
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Section on Urology: Report of the Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, 1995

David B. Joseph MD1

1 Department of Surgery/Pediatric Urology, University of Alabama Children's Hospital, Birmingham

Address correspondence to: David B. Joseph, MD, Department of Surgery

The Section on Urology conducted its annual Scientific Meeting at the American Academy of Pediatrics Meeting in San Francisco, California, on October 14 through 18, 1995. Two-hundred eighty-three abstracts were submitted with 157 (55%) accepted for presentation. Eighty percent of the abstracts were contributed from the United States or Canada and 20% were received from other foreign institutions. Stuart B. Bauer, MD, from Boston, Massachusetts, presided over the meeting as chairperson of the Section on Urology. The annual John K. Lattimer Lecture was an update on pediatric renal transplantation presented by Oscar Salvatierra, Jr. MD, Professor of Surgery, Urology and Pediatrics; and Director of the Pediatric Renal Transplantation Program, Stanford University (Palo Alto, California). The American Urological Association lectureship was given by Robert L. Chevalier, MD, Professor and Vice Chairman, Chief, Division of Pediatric Nephrology of the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia). He discussed developmental renal physiology in the premature, low birth weight infant. The panel discussed urologic and gynecologic needs of the disabled female and was developed in cooperation with the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. The panel was chaired by Richard C. Rink, MD, from Indianapolis, Indiana and members included Dr Rink, S. Jean Emans, MD, and Mark R. Laufer, MD, from Boston, Massachusetts, and David Muram, MD, from Memphis, Tennessee. This article will summarize papers of interest to the general pediatrician.

ANTENATAL HYDRONEPHROSIS

Antenatal hydronephrosis continues to be a perplexing problem for the pediatric urologist. The role of fetal intervention for obstructive uropathy re mains controversial.

Submitted on March 25, 1996
Accepted on March 25, 1996




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