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Query: UMLS:C0403608 (ureter)
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In a series of patients with idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis followed for up to 22 years, 21 were treated after ureterolysis of 36 ureters by wrapping the ureters in omentum. Recurrent fibrosis was noted in 2 patients involving 2 ureters. Earlier in the same period 3 patients with 4 ureters were treated by intraperitoneal placement after ureterolysis: in these, recurrence was noted in 2 patients involving 2 ureters. Steroids were used as an adjuvant when ureterolysis was incomplete or for relapse. The omentum appears to afford long-term protection against return of the fibrosis around the ureter.
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PMID:The long-term follow-up of idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis. 715 Sep 12

In 19 women (aged 27-66 years, mean 44.6 years) a retrospective analysis of the urological complications suffered during gynecological surgery was performed. 14 (73.6%) patients had ureteral injuries with concomitant bladder lesions in two. In the remaining 4 (21%) bladder injury only was present including a woman with a simultaneous urethral lesion. In the postoperative period 3 ureteric, 5 vesicovaginal, and one vesicouterine fistula developed. Intraoperative diagnosis followed by immediate surgical repair of the ureteric and bladder lesions was performed in 2 (10.5%) patients only. Except one case ureteral injury was unilateral, and predominantly right-sided (10:5). One patient suffered injury of one of the ureters in a complete ureteral duplication. The most frequent side of ureteral injury was at the level of the uterine artery with complete ligature of the ureter in 10 (71.4%), and partial in 4 (28.6%) patients. Percutaneous nephrostomy as a temporary diversion was performed in 8 (57.1%) patients. Definitive treatment involved simple Paquin ureteral reimplantation in 5 patients, Boari's procedure in 3, and psoas hitch technique once. Ureteral lysis only was sufficient in 3 patients. The surgical treatment including repair of vesical fistulas was in all cases successful.
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PMID:[Urologic complications of gynecologic surgery and their treatment in our clinical data]. 975 Mar 78