[Ultrasonic diagnosis of vesico-ureteral reflux in children]

The ultrasound diagnostics in the vesico-ureteral reflux makes possible: 1. The exact determination of various parameters of the reflux kidney (breadth of parenchyma, size of the kidney, pyelon). 2. In cases of reflux 3.--5. degrees the direct representation by filling of the bladder. 3. The full postoperative judgment of the condition of defluxion, which is of great value in risk patients. 4. The long-term control within the renal dispensary for the exclusion of late stenosations and the morphological judgment of the further development of the kidney. The postoperative intravenous urogramme is restricted to those cases which are sonographically conspicuous. The control MCU of the reflux recidivation will further be necessary.