Genitourinary neurofibromatosis mimicking posterior urethral valves

A 12-year-old boy, examined after an episode of acute urinary retention, was found to have neurofibromatosis of the bladder neck and prostatic urethra. His symptoms of bladder outlet obstruction and radiographic findings of a dilated prostatic urethra mimicked posterior urethral valves. Complete urologic investigation, including cystourethroscopy, revealed that the dilatation of the prostatic urethra was secondary to neural involvement of the external sphincter and posterior urethra without mechanical obstruction or posterior urethral valves. (C) 1997, Elsevier Science Inc.