Urinary excretion of pancreatic stone protein in diabetic nephropathy

The abnormal persistence of the patent processus vaginalis determines the appearance of four types of pathology, depending on the grade and sort of communication: communicating hydrocele, hydrocele of cord, scrotal hydrocele and intrafunicular hernia. We have revised our casuistry of children with patent processus vaginalis pathology for the two last years (1995-1996), and we have found 75 communicating hydrocele cases, 5 hydrocele of cord and 16 scrotal hydrocele cases, on children between 1 month and 13 years old. The diagnostic was done after physical exploration with transillumination and inguino-scrotal ultrasound. Initially, conservative treatment was followed, which was enough for 58 patients (60.4%). In the 38 cases (39.6%) in which there were no improvement, surgical treatment via inguinal was carried out, with good results in nearly all cases. As a conclusion, we can assert that ultrasound is an excellent diagnostical method for patent processus vaginalis pathology and conservative treatment must have priority upon surgery, since a great number of spontaneous resolutions are observed, most of all on children aged less than two years old.