[The percutaneous approach to the pediatric kidney]

The percutaneous access also to the infantile kidney increasingly gains significance. It is reported on experience with 16 percutaneous interventions at the kidney in 14 children. Indication, technique and complications are demonstrated, compared with literature and discussed. The percutaneous access to the kidney allows the clarification of certain diagnostic problems, guarantees the protection of the kidney in congenital and acquired obstructions, septic renal diseases, postoperative complications. The drainage of urinomas, the dilation of stenoses of the ureter as well as nephrolitholapaxia and chemolitholysis are with certain restrictions possible also in childhood.