Posterior urethral valves: 10 years audit of epidemiologic, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects in Yaoundé gynaeco-obstetric and paediatric hospital

Table 1 Age distribution at presentation

Their age at presentation ranges from 1st day of life to 108 months (9 years) with a median age of 22 months. The diagnosis was made in 13 (72.2%) participants after 1 month and in 10 (55.6%) after 1 year as shown in Table 1. This gives a prevalence of 13 cases of PUV/100, 000 admissions in our pediatric surgery unit and an annual admission rate of 2 cases of PUV per annum

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