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ureterocele
Etiology:
- most often associated with a duplicated collection system (2 ureters drain their respective kidney instead of 1)
Epidemiology:
- Caucasion (most common)
Pathology:
- the distal ureter balloons at its opening into the bladder, forming a sac-like pouch
Clinical manifestations:
- frequent urinary tract infection
- urosepsis
- obstructive voiding symptoms (LUTS)
- prinary retention
- failure to thrive
- hematuria
- cyclic abdominal pain
- ureteral calculus
- in females, salpingitis, hydrosalpinx with sepsis or torsion, tubo-ovarian mass
Radiology:
- most ureteroceles are diagnosed prenatally by ultrasound
Management:
- surgical repair
General
congenital anomaly (birth defect)
urologic disease
References
- Wikipedia: Ureterocele
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ureterocele