Abdominal echography accuracy in infants with urinary and kidney malformations

The diagnosis of urinary and kidney malformations should be made through antenatal ultrasound screening beginning in 18–20 weeks of gestation, which alowes the counceling education of the parents, abortion or even intrauterin surgical intervention. Objective: The authors will present the sensibility, specificity, predictive positive and negative value and the accuracy of the ultrasound diagnostic method in infants with urinary and kidney malformations. Material: We studied two groups of children. Group A: 116 patients, with urinary and kidney malformations that were evaluated in the Pediatric Clinic I, „Louis Tu…