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Question | Answer |
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1. Most common reason for a newborn boy not to urinate during the first day of life. 2. Diagnostic workup | 1. Posterior urethral valves 2. voiding cystourethrogram |
Very severe testicular pain of sudden onset. 1. fever, swollen testicle 2. swollen, high riding testicle | 1. epididymitis 2. torsion |
1. What is the cause of recurrent UTI's in a child 2. Management | 1. Vesicoureteral reflex and infection 2. empirical antibiotics, intravenous pyelogram and voiding cystogram |
Adolescent female feels need to urinate, and voids at appropriate intervals but is wet with urine all the time. | Low implantation of a ureter into the vagina. The other ureter has normal placement |
Workup for hematuria. | CT scan followed by cytoscopy |
Management of a septic patient with nephrolithiasis. | 1. IV antibiotics 2. decompression by ureteral stent or percutaneous nephrostomy |
1. What are the two main causes of air coming out in the urine? 2. What tests are used for diagnosis? | 1. diverticulitis or cancer causing a fistula between the sigmoid and dome of the bladder 2. CT scan first to rule out cancer followed later by sigmoidoscopic examination |
Treatment for testicular torsion. | bilateral orchiopexy |
Treatment for painless testicular mass. | Radical orchiectomy and sampling of inguinal lymph nodes |
Which test is useful for detecting urinary system dilation (i.e. from obstruction). | sonogram |
What is a contraindication for intravenous pyelogram? | creatinine >2 |
Renal mass differential diagnosis | 1. renal cell carcinoma 2. simple cyst 3. oncocytoma 4. angiomyolipoma |
What is the treatment of choice for superficial bladder cancer? | intravesical BCG |
What are the treatment options for bone metastases from prostate cancer? | 1. androgen ablation 2. orchiectomy 3. luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone agonists (flutamide) |
1. What size ureteral stones usually pass spontaneously? 2. What management is given? | 1. 3mm or less 2. analgesics and fluids |
Which test is perform to evaluate suspected urethral injury? | retrograde urethrogram |
Patient being allowed to pass a ureteral stone suddenly develops chills, fever spike and flank pain. What is the management? | immediate decompression with ureteral stent or percutaneous nephrostomy |
Woman with multiple pregnancies leaks urine when laughing, sneezing or lifting heavy objects. | Stress incontinence from weak pelvic floor |