Ectopic Ureter Associated with Ipsilateral Renal Dysgenesis.
- Author:
Suck Ho KANG
1
;
Sung Gu KANG
;
Chang Ho LEE
;
Jae Hyuk SHIN
;
Duck Ki YOON
;
Jae Heung CHO
Author Information
1. Department of Urology, Korea University College of Medicine, Sung Ae General Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Ureter;
Dysplastic kidney;
Agenesis
- MeSH:
Adult;
Dilatation;
Female;
Humans;
Kidney;
Seminal Vesicles;
Ureter*;
Ureteral Obstruction;
Urinary Bladder
- From:Korean Journal of Urology
2004;45(1):84-87
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
An ectopic ureter inserts at a point other than the normal trigonal position of the bladder and its association with ectopic renal dysgenesis is extraordinarily rare. We report two cases of ectopic ureter associated with ipsilateral ectopic renal dysgenesis. One was a 44-year-old man whose right ureteral opening was identified at the right seminal vesicle and who was treated successfully by nephroureterectomy and ipsilateral seminal vesiculectomy. The kidney drained by the ectopic ureter was dysplastic. The other was a 32-year-old woman whose right ureter drained into the right anterior vaginal wall and who was also treated successfully by nephroureterectomy. On pathologic examination, there was no renal tissue in the postoperative specimen. From the marked dilatation of the right ureter, this condition was interpreted as an acquired form of renal agenesis, in which renal tissue developed but atrophied during development or during childhood because of an associated ureteral obstruction rather than true renal agenesis which is defined as the complete congenital absence of renal tissue.
