Diverticulum of the Bladder in Children

322 T HE FEW reports of bladder diverticulum in children would suggest that this is a rare condition. In 1934, Kretschmer’ reviewed the literature and found 15 cases in children less than 12 years of age to which he added two more; in 1940, he reported three additional cases.2 Since then, 25 more cases have been described in children less than 15 years of age by Ward,3 Campbell,’ Kjellberg et al., and Miller.6 In addition, 17 cases have been reported at necropsy. We wish to add 13 cases occurring in children between 2 and 14 years of age, eight of which were discovered during the routine investigation of 487 children with persistent bed-wetting and three during investigation of 53 children with persistent infection of the urinary tract. The remaining two children were investigated for dysunia. Among the 27 cases in the literature where the sex of the child is given only two occurred in females. In the present series of 13 cases, one occurred in a girl.