6 Cases of Single Ectopic Ureter in Children / 대한비뇨기과학회지

ABSTRACT

PURPOSE: Single ectopic ureter is ralatively rare disease. We reviewed 6 cases of single ectopic ureter in children from 1989 and 1997. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Herein 5 females and 1 male are described with single ectopic ureter associated with a ipsilateral small, hydronephrotic or dysplastic kidney. Six patients varied in age from one month through 11 years. Male to female ratio was 1 to 5. RESULTS: The chief complaints were total incontinence in 4 and urinary tract infection in 1. One patient had a prenatally diagnosed hydronephrosis with ultrasonography. Ectopic ureteral orifice were identified at the vagina in 4, at the bladder neck in 1 and posterior urethra in 1 patient. The treatment methods were nephrectomy in 4, transurethral incision of ureterocele in 1 and bilateral ureteroneocystostomy in 1. CONCLUSIONS: The careful history taking, physical examination and the corresponding radiologic studies are essential in diagnosis of single ectopic ureter. And proper operative method may provide excellent results.