Excretory Urography, Cystography, and Cystoscopy in the Evaluation of Women with Urinary-Tract Infection

IT has been estimated that 10 to 20 per cent of women will have urinary-tract infection at some time during their lives1 and that about 99 per cent of those with recurrent infections will have urinary-tract reinfections, as opposed to persistent urinary-tract infections.2 The value of radiographic and endoscopic investigations of the urinary system in women with such reinfections, however, has not been clearly defined. We report a prospective study of findings with excretory urography, cystography, and cystoscopy in women with symptomatic urinary-tract infection and an analysis of the effects of the findings on treatment. The great majority of these . . .