Abstract

We describe a 2-year-old boy seen in Kenya who presented with fever, dysuria, foul smelling urine, anddiarrhea. His previous ultrasonography showed an overdistended bladder and hydronephrosis. Physicalexamination revealed a distended abdomen, loose abdominal wall muscles with thin, flabby, and wrinkledskin on the abdominal wall, hypoplastic scrotum, and bilateral cryptorchidism. A diagnosis of prune bellysyndrome was promptly made. The urinary tract infection was duly treated with intravenous ceftriaxoneand the child followed by pediatric urology.

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