Abnormalities associated with orificial insufficiency of prostatic ducts in infants and children.

48 boys examined with urethrocystography on all together 129 occasions and shown to have orificial insufficiency of prostatic ducts were studied for associated for associated abnormalities. In 44 cases the insufficiency could be attributed to urinary infection complicating urethral obstruction or neurogenic dysfunction of the urinary bladder or to any one of these three abnormalities alone. The age at which the insufficiency occurred, the time it persisted, and the extent to which it involved the prostate were also studied.