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HYDRONEPHROSIS OF AN ECTOPIC KIDNEY RESULTING FROM ACCIDENTAL SURGICAL LIGATION OF THE URETER
Author(s) -
Howarth V. S.
Publication year - 1950
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1950.tb06577.x
Subject(s) - medicine , hydronephrosis , ligation , ureter , accidental , surgery , atrophy , ectopic ureter , lumbar , urology , urinary system , physics , acoustics
Summary 1. An example of accidental surgical ligation of the ureter with hydronephrotic atrophy is a low lumbar ectopic kidney is recorded. 2. The development of hydronephrosis following surgical ligation of the ureter is insidious. 3. Pain may not be a clinical feature until hydronephrotic atrophy is complete, and in the case recorded, three and a half years passed without symptoms or signs. 4. The presence of infection would appear to determine the onset of acute symptoms following surgical ligation of the ureter.