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  • Title: [Pyelonephritic scar formation].
    Author: Huland H.
    Journal: Urologe A; 1993 Jan; 32(1):16-21. PubMed ID: 8447040.
    Abstract:
    Pyelonephritic scars almost never develop after urinary tract infections alone, but require certain risk factors in addition. The most important risk factors are: vesicoureteral reflux, intrarenal reflux, obstructive uropathy, and nephrolithiasis. Most pyelonephritic scars develop in early childhood with the combination of vesico-ureteral reflux, intrarenal reflux, and urinary tract infections. Urinary tract infections alone almost never result in pyelonephritic scars. After the age of 3 years the risk developing pyelonephritic scars is not more than 10% in those with the combination of urinary tract infections and vesicoureteral reflux. In this age group the risk developing pyelonephritic scars is not altered by antireflux operation.
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