Vladimir M. Builov

2014

Urinary tract diverticula include pelvicalyceal diverticula (PSD), ureteral diverticula (UD), bladder diverticula (BD), and urethral diverticula (UTHD). Urinary tract diverticula are mainly congenital abnormalities, although they may also be acquired. In most cases the priority method for their diagnostics, especially if there are no clinical implications for a long time, is diagnostic imaging. Its algorithm, the same as most disciplines of radiological diagnostics in urology, includes, first of all, ultrasonography (USG) as well as X-ray and magnetic resonance diagnostics. Treatment methods for urinary tract mdiverticula vary from case monitoring to surgery which has been mostly endoscopic during the past decades.