A simulation study on the kinetics of PSP excretion and distribution was performed with the aid of an analogue computer. It was indicated that the PSP excretion curve should resembled to an aperiodic damped oscillation. Although, when the urine flow is fairly high comparing to the volume of the urinary dead space, the excretion curve gradually fall with time. Therefore, it could be noted that some dead space during the urine flow should exist, when the PSP excretion curve was not a gradually fallen one. The clinical investigation demonstrated the propriety of this prospect, i. e., the most of the normal adult showed approximately gradually fallen excretion curves. On the other hand, the patients with abnormal excretion curve showed frequently any abnormality in the urinary tracts. Out of 1501 cases who received PSP excretion test as routine work of physical check up, 441 cases showed abnormal excretion curve, and subsequent urological examinations revealed 126 patients with some urological disorders. The most frequent causes of abnormal PSP excretion curve were urolithiasis (24 cases), prostatic hypertrophy and cancer (29 cases), polycystic kidney (15 cases), chronic pyelonephritis (11 cases), postoperative disorders in the small pelvis (7 cases). The less frequent causes were movable kidney (5 cases), cystitis (5 cases), atonic bladder (4 cases), compression of the ureter by a tumor (5 cases), tumor in the bladder (3 cases), bladder neck contracture (3 cases), and renal tuberculosis (2 cases). In addition, the continuous PSP excretion test gave a first clue to find out some urological abnormali-ties which are difficult to predict, such as vesicoureteral reflux (3 cases), retrocaval ureter (2 cases), and aberrant renal artery (1 case).
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