Objectives: We report on four new cases of Wolfram's Syndrome. We emphasize in urological aspects of this disease.

Patients And Methods: Three male siblings. The other patient is also a male, without familiar relation with the other ones. All four patients presents different levels of urological alterations, mainly urinary collecting system dilation and decrease in detrusor muscle contractility.

Conclusions: Urological findings are cardinal aspects in Wolfram syndrome. Due to its high frequency and prognostic value in natural history of disease. Urological disease seems to be within a systemic neurological tissues affectation of etiology that remains unknown.

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