Urogenital System

Una epididimite complicata

Pani E, Mazzero G, Cattelan M, Codrich D

2026/3 — pag. 70-71 — DOI

Acute scrotal pain in children requires prompt differentiation between inflammation and surgical emergencies. The paper reports the case of a 4-year-old boy with acute epididymitis that progressed to severe pachivaginalitis despite treatment. The inf...

Quando lo scroto si gonfia... e poi ci ripensa: uno strano caso di edema scrotale

Mosole L.

2026/2 — pag. 122 — DOI

Recurrent idiopathic scrotal oedema is a rare condition in the paediatric population, characterised by episodes of spontaneous, self-limiting scrotal swelling with no apparent cause....

Il valproato tra terapia e tossicità tubulare: viaggio all'interno della sindrome di Fanconi

Ranieri A, Pietrolati G, Perre E, Pillon R, Alberici I, Pasini A

2026/1 — pag. 10-15 — DOI

Fanconi Syndrome (FS) is a proximal renal tubular dysfunction characterised by the urinary loss of normally reabsorbed substances. Although rare, it may occur as an iatrogenic complication of valproic acid (VPA) therapy in children. The paper reports...

Sindrome nefrosica secondaria a un'infezione da Mycoplasma penumoniae

Giacomini G, Bagni M

2025/6 — pag. 152-153 — DOI

The paper reports the case of an 8-year-old boy with type 1 diabetes mellitus and celiac disease who presented to the Emergency Room with bilateral periorbital oedema, low-grade fever and cough. Workup revealed nephrotic syndrome (nephrotic-range pro...

Associazione VATER/VACTERL

Scupilliti S, Vancini A, Selicorni A

2025/5 — pag. 317-319 — DOI

Alla faccia del corpo estraneo (vaginale)

Bleve C

2025/5 — pag. 117-119 — DOI

A 16-year-old girl with a history of partial liver transplant at the age of 5 due to autoimmune hepatitis undergoes a routine follow-up abdominal ultrasound that reveals bladder wall thickening and pseudopolypoid lesions. Cystoscopy and biopsy initia...

Le responsabilità dei padri: oltre il gene!

Greco L, Maiuri P.

2025/3 — pag. 165-169 — DOI

It is customary to think that fathers participate in the fertilization of the egg by releasing only the genetic DNA contained in the head of the sperm. The fertilized oocyte then expels the mitochondria of paternal origin, giving only to the mother t...

Il mistero del seme paterno ovvero la responsabilità dei padri

Greco L.

2025/3 — pag. 144 — DOI

Corticosteroidi topici nel trattamento della fimosi

Traunero A, Scarpa MG, Tornese G.

2025/2 — pag. 91-96 — DOI

Phimosis is the complete or partial inability to retract the foreskin over the glans. Usually, it is a physiological condition, present from birth, and in the majority of cases resolves with variable timing during growth. Pathological phimosis occurs...

Una pubertà che brucia le tappe

Solidoro S

2024/26 — pag. 3-3 — DOI

The diagnosis of idiopathic central precocious puberty was eventually made in an 8-year-old boy with increased testicular volume and growth rate in the absence of bone age advancement based on an elevated baseline LH level. ...

La torsione dell'ovaio può essere subdola

Tonetto S.

2024/5 — pag. 332-334 — DOI

The case of a 13-year-old girl presenting with abdominal pain and vomiting, ultimately diagnosed with ovarian torsion, is described...

Alla ricerca delle cause di un sanguinamento urogenitale

Brusadelli C, Barzaghi S, Lauriola RS, Dell’Acqua F, Passoni P, Melzi ML

2023/5 — pag. 78-81 — DOI

Vaginal bleeding in pre-pubertal girls is uncommon and can often be confused with the bleeding from the genital or urinary tract or from the anus. The paper reports the case of a 6-year-old girl with pollakiuria and “dark urine” without pain, which l...

Ematocolpo in un'adolescente

Cuozzo M, Milano A, Improta M, Ponte G, D’Aprea T, Ciccarelli GP, Tartaglione N

2023/4 — pag. 60-60 — DOI

The case of a 13-year-old girl presenting at ED with severe abdominal pain is described. The diagnosis of haematocolpos was finally made thanks to the classic ultrasound image....

Agenesia renale, sindrome di Zinner Ittero neonatale, ittero sclerale Nistagmo, albinismo

2023/3 — pag. 193 — DOI

Un rene… due uteri! La sindrome di Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich

Borelli E, Casciana ML, Giacomozzi C, Fasoli S

2023/2 — pag. 42-42 — DOI

The case of an eleven-year-old girl with acute pelvic abdominal pain due to hematocolpos is presented. Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich syndrome was finally diagnosed....

Rene singolo congenito

Gruppo di lavoro sulle malformazioni congenite dei reni e delle vie urinarie della SINePe

2023/1 — pag. 21-30 — DOI

In recent years, several studies have been published on the prognosis of children with congenital solitary kidney (CSK), but a worldwide consensus on management and follow-up is still lacking. Recently, the Italian Society of Pediatric Nephrology has...

Intossicazione da piombo: una nefropatia dalla diagnosi pesante

Toniutti M, Vidal E

2022/6 — pag. 119-123 — DOI

Lead poisoning is an increasingly important public health issue. In children the central nervous system is the most severely affected with cognitive and neurobehav-ioural impairment, but lead can affect a variety of organ systems. In kidneys it can c...

Non ti scordar del tubulo: la malattia di Dent

Benvenuto S, Bossini B

2022/5 — pag. 112-112 — DOI

The case of a 12-year-old boy with proteinuria, microhaematuria and nephrocalcinosis with normal glomerular function is described. A diagnosis of Dent disease was eventually made and confirmed by the genetic test....

Peli scrotali isolati nel lattante: un segno di allarme o una normale variante?

Caprio AM, Casertano M, Longobardi G.

2022/3 — pag. 193-196 — DOI

Isolated scrotal hair development in infancy is a rare disorder that has not been well-characterized. The article describes a case of transient isolated scrotal hairs in a five-month-old boy. Except for scrotal hair development, physical examination ...

L’imene imperforato come possibile causa di dolore addominale

Corona F

2022/3 — pag. 74-74 — DOI

The case of a 12-year-old girl with B4, PH4 pubertal development and worsening abdominal pain is described. The diagnosis of imperforate hymen and secondary haematocolpos was eventually posed....

Peli scrotali isolati nel lattante: un segno di allarme o una normale variante?

Caprio AM, Casertano M, Longobardi G

2022/3 — pag. 61-64 — DOI

Isolated scrotal hair development in infancy is a rare disorder that has not been well-characterized. The article describes a case of transient isolated scrotal hairs in a five-month-old boy. Except for scrotal hair development, physical examination ...

Che cos’è l’ematocolpo?

Cozzolino M, Furicchia F, Addeo AM, Rossini B, Parenti G, Mambelli L, Marchetti F.

2021/9 — pag. 587-590 — DOI

Hematocolpos is a term given to a blood-filled dilated vagina due to menstrual blood. When there is concurrent uterine distention, the term hematometrocolpos is used. These conditions are mostly in the setting of an anatomical obstruction, usually an...

Interessamento genitale della porpora di Schönlein-Henoch

Tovaglieri N, Amariti R, Loiacono F, De Giacomo C

2021/3 — pag. 196-199 — DOI

Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) is a paediatric vasculitis, affecting several organs. Purpura is typically found on posterior surface of lower limbs and is more often associated with joint, abdominal and kidney involvement. The paper reports a case of...

Infezione urinaria e cortisone: più sì che no Qualità dell’accudimento, molecole e (neuro)sviluppo del prematuro Linee guida: tra rigore e bisogno di verifica e aggiornamento Da salvatori a carnefici: il caso dei PPI e dell’asma Pericarditi ricorrenti Una FPIES blu

2021/3 — pag. 147-148 — DOI

Interessamento genitale della porpora di Schönlein-Henoch

Tovaglieri N, Amariti R, Loiacono F, De Giacomo C

2021/3 — pag. 73-74 — DOI

Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) is a paediatric vasculitis, affecting several organs. Purpura is typically found on posterior surface of lower limbs and is more often associated with joint, abdominal and kidney involvement. The paper reports a case o...

La circoncisione non è mai banale

D. Codrich, E. Guida, M.G. Scarpa, J. Schleef

2020/9 — pag. 234-234 — DOI

Ereditieri sfortunati: il rene policistico

G.C. Calligari


2020/8 — pag. 212-213 — DOI

Addome acuto come presentazione di imene imperforato con idrometrocolpo nel neonato

G. Gaudino, M.A. Galeone, C. Delehaye, E. Inserra, S. Confetto, A. Papparella, A. Marte, E. Miraglia del Giudice, C. Capristo, P. Montaldo

2020/26 — pag. 146-148 — DOI

Imperforate hymen is a congenital anomaly in which the hymenal membrane has no opening with subsequent vaginal outlet obstruction. After maternal hormone stimulation there is an increased cervical mucous glands secretion, which gradually accumulates ...

Tinea faciei Edema scrotale acuto idiopatico

2020/6 — pag. 396

Amenorrea primaria e sindrome di Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser

F. Corrias

2020/3 — pag. 60-60

La sindrome nefrosica in età pediatrica

Consensus della Società Italiana di Nefrologia Pediatrica (SINePe)

2019/9 — pag. 577-588

In Italy are not guidelines for the management of idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (NS) in paediatric age. The choice of a treatment with steroids has always been based on the clinical experience of each centre. The present Consensus of the Italian Paed...

Doppio distretto renale con sbocco ureterale vaginale

I. Buffoni, G. Vagelli

2019/9 — pag. 596-598

Urinary dribbling in children can be due to urinary tract infection, mellitus and insipidus diabetes and vaginal voiding. In duplex renal system ureteral ectopia should be ruled out. Imaging of urinary tract in children is largely based on ultrasound...

Troppi “matti” tra i “malati”. Il caso delle MICIPneumococco alla ribalta (1). Infezioni da ceppi emergenti Pneumococco alla ribalta (2). Infezioni e immunodeficienze Dilatazione delle vie urinarie nel feto? Calma e gesso Sostanzialmente un pancreas artificialeKawasaki indimenticabile

2019/9 — pag. 553-554

Doppio distretto renale con sbocco ureterale vaginale

I. Buffoni, G. Vagelli

2019/9 — pag. 219-221

Urinary dribbling in children can be due to urinary tract infection, mellitus and insipidus diabetes and vaginal voiding. In duplex renal system ureteral ectopia should be ruled out. Imaging of urinary tract in children is largely based on ultrasound...

Un fermacapelli intraprendente

F. Mastro, A. De Martino, T. Martucci, C. Caputo, E. Oriolo, C. Franco, S. Caramia, M. Vinci, M. Indolfi

2019/3 — pag. 193-195

A 4-year-and-10-month-old girl presented with an abundant vaginal bleeding. She had recurrent vaginitis with vaginal discharge for 5 months. There was no history of urinary frequency, abdominal pains or sexual abuse. Her mother had taken her to p...

Un fermacapelli intraprendente

F. Mastro, A. De Martino, T. Martucci, C. Caputo, E. Oriolo, C. Franco, S. Caramia, M. Vinci, M. Indolfi

2019/3 — pag. 41-42

A 4-year-and-10-month-old girl presented with an abundant vaginal bleeding. She had recurrent vaginitis with vaginal discharge for 5 months. There was no history of urinary frequency, abdominal pains or sexual abuse. Her mother had taken her to p...

Il macrorchidismo monolaterale

A. Zucchini, V. Graziani, M. Cozzolino, F. Marchetti

2018/9 — pag. 569-572

The unilateral enlargement of a testis, in the absence of symptoms that point towards an acute scrotum, is a situation that must require careful assessment because the exclusion of a tumour process is the first step to be taken. Tumour or endocrine d...

Sarà maschio o femmina?

L. Lucaccioni, A. Boncompagni, E. Pietrella, P.L. Ceccarelli, F. Ferrari, A. Berardi, L. Mughetti

2018/9 — pag. 561-568

After the first trimester of pregnancy future parents are commonly asked if their child will be male or female. Such a question creates many expectations and implies the true determination of the baby's identity. Indeed, since the earliest stages of ...

Hai un monorene congenito? Il buon giorno si vede dal mattino!

M. Diplomatico, S. Guarino, N. Della Vecchia, T. Esposito, R. Marotta, P. Marzuillo

2018/9

Sindrome di Rokitansky e dintorni: cosa deve sapere il pediatra

M.C. Pellegrin, F. Corrias, M. Bramuzzo, F. Scrimin, E. Cattaruzzi, G. Tornese, E. Faleschini, A. Ventura

2018/3 — pag. 165-171

Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKHS) is a rare congenital disorder characterised by variable aplasia of the uterus and the upper part of the vagina in women with a normal 46,XX karyotype and normal ovarian function. It may be isolated (t...

Che colpo! Ematocolpo

A. Contin, E. Casarin, M. Bellettato

2017/10 — pag. 663-664

Masse ovariche perinatali, in età pediatrica e in adolescenza: miti e realtà

M.C. Lucchetti, F. Morini

2017/10 — pag. 641-648

Ovarian masses are a relatively frequent finding either in perinatal or in paediatric and adolescent ages and are not always easy to interpret and manage. The same rules and protocols used in adult patients are generally adopted in the clinical app...

Pielectasie neonatiDosaggio della melatonina

2017/8 — pag. 533

È saltata la valvola

M. Magnani, V. Silecchia, C. Vallongo, M. Marchiori

2016/10

È saltata la valvola

M. Magnani, V. Silecchia, C. Vallongo, Mara Marchiori

2016/7 — pag. 461-462

Una bambina con gli occhi gonfi

V. Dal Cengio, R. Perretta, A.M. Bonutti, M. Bellettato

2015/8

Lo scroto acuto

S. Salis, I. Rabach, R. Giorgi, E. Cattaruzzi, L. Calligaris, E. Barbi

2015/7 — pag. 448-451

Acute scrotum is a common cause of medical evaluation for children and adolescents. Diagnostic delay in case of a testicular torsion can lead to an ischemic damage of the gonad. The medical history and the clinical findings are not always clearly i...

Ulcera genitale e... PFAPA?!? (ovvero attenzione all'anamnesi!)

A. Paglino, D. Laino

2015/3 — pag. 189-192

Quando mi girano le tube...

D. Monacelli, A. Carelli, M. Castagnino

2015/2 — pag. 115-116

Atlante dermatologico pediatrico alfabetico di Medico e Bambino U

2014/11

Una fontana “illuminante” per una tumefazione scrotale

M. Copertino, E. Benelli

2014/10 — pag. 667-668

Una fontana “illuminante” per una tumefazione scrotale

M. Copertino, E. Benelli

2014/10

Fimosi cicatriziale

M. Doria

2014/6 — pag. 390-392

A proposito di red belly button: “quando l’uraco non si oblitera”

F. Matina, A. Federico, A. Costa, C. Mattina, D. Masaracchio

2014/4 — pag. 250-252

The urachus is a normal embryonic remnant of the primitive bladder dome and extends upward from the anterior dome of the bladder toward the umbilicus. Urachal remnant diseases are rare and manifest with nonspecific abdominal or urinary signs and sy...

La profilassi con vitamina D: importanti chiarimenti su dosi e formulazioni Un’altra possibile causa di tumefazione acuta del clitoride La testimonianza di due infermiere in missione nelle Filippine

2014/4 — pag. 219-221

Una tumefazione del clitoride

V. Graziani, M. Mainetti, F. Currò, S. Dal Bo, P. Ghetti, A. Zucchini, F. Marchetti

2014/2 — pag. 113-115

Febbri di una notte di mezza estate

A. Paladini, V. Venturoli, M. Fornaro, G. La Fauci, E. Valletta

2014/2

Screening ecografico postnatale delle uropatie Controllo sfinterico Proctite benigna del lattante a desensibilizzazione dopo il TPO Quando introdurre il glutine nella dieta del neonato a rischio di celiachia?

2013/3 — pag. 194-195

Non sempre è quello che sembra!

S. Celestino, G. Spagnut

2012/8

Una guida per i medici in tema di abuso sessuale dei bambini prepuberi

M.R. Giolito

2012/5 — pag. 291-297

This article comes from the text “A guide for physicians for evaluation of the sexually abused child” written by the Italian Group for Child Abuse. The article discusses the essential prerequisites for physicians, working in medical offices and hos...

Vulvovaginiti ricorrenti

2012/4 — pag. 252-253

Il testicolo ritenuto e il rapporto sulle cure in Italia

G. Riccipetitoni

2010/4 — pag. 211-213

Le infezioni febbrili delle vie urinarie

G. Montini, A. Ammenti, L. Cataldi, R. Chimenz, V. Fanos, A. La Manna, G. Marra, M. Materassi, P. Pecile, M. Pennesi, L. Pisanello, F. Sica, A. Toffolo

2009/6 — pag. 359-370

We present the recommendations, prepared by a working group of the Italian Society of Pediatric Nephrology, for the diagnosis, treatment, imaging protocol and use of antibiotic prophylaxis in children having their first febrile urinary tract infect...

Un pisellino rosso

I. Marinelli

2008/3

Il trattamento del testicolo ritenuto

E. Conte, F. Chiarelli

2007/9 — pag. 573-579

In August 2006 a group of specialists in testicular physiology, paediatric surgery/urology, endocrinology, pathology and anaesthesiology convened for two days in Sigtuna (Sweden) to allow preliminary conclusion of the most controversial issues in the...

Olive comprese

M. Doria

2007/9

Nascosti dietro un naso capriccioso

M. Maschio

2007/7

Un dolore addominale molto “sorprendente”

Massimo Ronconi

2007/6 — pag. 391-392

Il pidocchio: il ciclo vitale, la resisitenza ai farmaci e considerazioni igieniche

G. Bartolozzi

2007/6

Ipertrofia clitoridea in bambina affetta da neurofibromatosi di tipo 1

E. Ballerini, R. Luksch

2006/9 — pag. 601-602

We report the case of NF1 in a 21 month old female, who presented with hypertrophy of the clitoris. The work-up evaluations revealed the presence of multiple pelvic and abdominal neurofibromas and concomitant histologically assessed presacral ganglio...

Un trattamento efficace, non farmacologico, contro i pidocchi: l'aria calda

G. Bartolozzi

2006/9

Ipertrofia clitoridea in bambina affetta da neurofibromatosi di tipo 1

E. Ballerini, R. Luksch

2006/9

Quadri dermatologici dei genitali: osservazione di un'area trascurata

M. Cutrone

2006/1 — pag. 40-45

Le valvole uretrali anteriori: descrizione di un caso clinico

A. Borrelli, A. Correra, D. Ummarino

2005/10

Le valvole uretrali anteriori: descrizione di un caso clinico

A. Borrelli, A. Correra, D. Ummarino

2005/10 — pag. 684-684

The Authors report the case of a neonate with anterior urethral valves, a very rare condition, the diagnosis of which is not always easy. They describe the clinical features of this condition and give suggestions on the most appropriate diagnostic...

La tirosinemia epatorenale

M. Spada

2005/8

Segni di infiltrazione renale come esordio di una leucemia linfoblastica acuta

F. Patarino, M. Rabusin, G. Zanazzo, P. Tamaro

2005/8

Tre palle, un soldo

A. Lambertini, P. Alvisi, G. Mescoli

2005/3 — pag. 190-191

La nefrite IgA

F. Panizon

2004/4 — pag. 251-252

Semeiotica medica dell’abuso sessuale nei bambini prepuberi: requisiti e raccomandazioni

2004/4 — pag. 243-248

A document prepared by a multidisciplinary task force provides recommendations on medical evaluation of suspected sexually abused pre-pubertal children. The document identifies the objectives and the environmental requisites for the assessment, des...

L’abuso sessuale: un fantasma?

M&B

2004/4 — pag. 211-213

Infezioni delle vie urinarie nel bambino: il ruolo dei flurochinoloni

G. Bartolozzi

2004/1

Papule giallastre “intrattabili” del pene

M. Cutrone

2003/7 — pag. 465-466

Lo sviluppo puberale: valutazione ecografica

V. Bruni, M. Dei, J. Nori, A. Verni

2001/5 — pag. 315-318

The use of ultrasound can improve the clinical assessment of puberal development. Breast development is assessed together with uterine, endometrial and ovarian development. This joint evaluation shows the existence of important differences across i...

Il trattamento topico con corticosteroidi nei bambini con fimosi con indicazione al trattamento chirurgico è efficace, sicuro ed economico: uno studio in Pediatria ambulatoriale

F Marolla, P Nardini, C. Cives, T. Gazzotti, A. Lo Tesoriere, D Morano, A. D’Erasmo, F. Ferro

2001/1 — pag. 53-54

Verifying the long term (six months) efficacy and the appropriateness of treating boys, to whom circumcision had been recommended, with steroid ointment. 7 primary care paediatricians referred 49 boys with suspected phimosis to surgical examinati...

Sindrome di Dubowitz con reflusso vescico-ureterale e agenesia renale. Confronto con le sindromi da instabilità cromosomica

A. Borrelli, R. Festa

2000/9

L’enuresi notturna

M.C. Mencoboni

2000/9 — pag. 565-570

Enuresis is a very frequent complaint: its prevalence is 10% in 6-year old children. Primary nocturnal enuresis is a multifactorial condition, where an unbalance between urine production and bladder functional capacity is associated with arousal pr...

Infezione urinaria e reflusso; improvvisazione contro evidence-based-medicine

2000/5 — pag. 321-322

Elogio dei ricostituenti

A. Brunelli

1999/10 — pag. 627-628

Calendario chirurgico

A. Messineo

1999/10 — pag. 627-628

The timing and treatment of a few common surgical conditions are discussed. Inguinal hernia should be surgically treated as soon as possible. Funicular cyst and hydrocele can wait until the end of the second year. Testes must be in their scrotal si...

Il diabete insipidoIl bilancio dell'acqua

G. Bartolozzi

1999/6

Glomerulonefrite acuta

G. Bartolozzi

1998/9

Lo scroto acuto: diagnosi clinica o diagnosi peroperatoria?

L. Cucchi, A. Coci, R. Damonte e coll.

1998/4 — pag. 223-226

The Authors present their personal experience in managing children with acute testicular pain. They performed a surgical exploration in 50 children with acute testicular pain, who had been consecutively seen in their department during the last t...

Le uropatie diagnosticate in utero: ricerca di linee-guida condivise

L. Peratoner

1997/4 — pag. 237-239