A 31-year-old female with a 19 year history of chronic urinary tract infections (UTI), intermittent hematuria, and associated flank pain was referred to our service for evaluation of anatomy of renal system and possible surgical intervention. At the time of the referral, the UTI’s had become more frequent and the flank pain had increased in severity.The following diagnostic studies were employe...

A 5-year-old girl with a history of recurrent urinary tract infection since the age of 14 months was diagnosed as having a right duplicated urinary collecting system with the upper ureter ectopically opening in the urethra. She underwent retroperitoneoscopic heminephrectomy for a right dysplastic kidney and open ureterocelectomy and reimplantation of the refluxing lower ureter via Pfannenstiel ...

Robotic management of a duplicated ureter during intracoporeal urinary diversion following robotic cystectomy Abdullah Erdem Canda1, Erem Asil2, Erdem Koc2, Mustafa Aldemir2, Arslan Ardicoglu3, Ali Fuat Atmaca3 1Yildirim Beyazit University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey 2Ankara Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Department of Urology, Ankara, Turkey 3Yildirim Beyazit University, School...

A twenty-eight-year-old female with a history of suprapubic pain and recurrent urinary tract infections presents for urology referral with a kidney, ureter, and bladder radiograph showing a 4.4 cm bladder calculus and 6.5 cm distal left ureteral stone. She underwent effective cystolitholapaxy of the bladder stone. Endourologic attempt (left ureteroscopy) was unsuccessful because of ureteral sto...

OBJECTIVE To study the role of perineal sonography in the diagnosis of an ectopic ureteric opening into the urethra. METHODS In this study, carried out over about 4 years, perineal sonography was done to look for a ureter opening ectopically into the urethra in patients for whom abdominal sonography showed the ureter descending below and beyond the urinary bladder. RESULTS Perineal sonograp...

Duplex collecting systems are the most commonly encountered anomaly of the urinary system. Complete duplex system with an H shaped ureter is a very rare situation. There are only two reported H ureter cases in the literature. Herein, we aimed to present an H shaped ureter case, which was identified while performing ureterorenoscopy to a 48-year-old female patient due to a right distal ureteral ...

The ureter is subjected to natural variation such as duplication. The partial duplication forming bifidity is one of its rare congenital anomalies. We report here a case of unilateral left bifid ureter encountered during cadaveric dissection. The bifidity in the present case was at its greater extent and in the form of Y shaped with superior and inferior segments. Proximally, both the segments ...

Abstract The ureter is commonly the subject of congenital anatomical variations involving either complete or incomplete duplication. Complete duplication may not produce symptoms and therefore does become apparent until later in life. This condition most encountered incidentally during extraction impacted ureteric stones. type anomaly more common females. However, this extremely rare incident a...

INTRODUCTION There are only a few reports on laparoscopic pyeloplasty in kidney abnormalities and only one case for laparoscopic pyeloplasty in a duplicated system. Increasing experience in laparoscopic techniques allows proper treatment of such anomalies. However, its feasibility in difficult cases with altered kidney anatomy such as that of duplicated renal pelvis still needs to be addressed....