Treatment of Vesicoureteral Reflux

Abstract

Ureteral reflux has been a subject of major concern to all physicians dealing with recurrent urinary-tract sepsis. Internists as well as urologists and pediatricians have dealt with this problem since ureteral reflux may also be the cause of persistent infection in the adult as well as the child. Despite intensive efforts by a variety of investigators, including clinicians, anatomists and physiologists, and despite a host of publications dealing with this problem no true unanimity of opinion concerning management seems to have evolved. The disparate theories about etiology, treatment and cause were reflected in the three-day workshops on ureteral reflux in . . .