Imaging of the Pediatric Urinary System

Abstract

Recent advances in pediatric urinary tract imaging include development of alternative imaging methods without use of ionizing radiation; evolving understanding of the relationship of urinary tract infection, vesicoureteral reflux, and renal scarring, including the important role of dysfunctional voiding; development of a consensus nomenclature and risk-based classification for fetal and antenatal urinary tract dilation; advances in the understanding of sporadic and inherited renal cystic disease; and a proposed modification of the Bosniak criteria for distinguishing complex renal cysts from cystic renal tumors in children.

Keywords: Children; Congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT); Pediatric; Postinfectious nephropathy; Pyelonephritis; Renal cyst; Renal scarring; Vesicoureteral reflux.