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Double ureter and congenital diverticulum of the ureter

Duplicité urétérale et diverticule congénital de l'uretère

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The ureteral duplication is a relatively common malformation and usually has no pathologic consequences. On the contrary, congenital diverticula of the ureter are rare and often give rise to urinary complications. A double malformation combining left ureteral duplication and a congenital diverticulum of the right ureter is reported and discussed. This rare case illustrates one and the same malformational process arrested at different stages of development.

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Les duplicités urétérales sont des malformations relativement fréquentes et généralement sans conséquences pathologiques. Par contre les diverticules congénitaux de l'uretère sont exceptionnels et souvent à l'origine de complications urinaires. Une double malformation urétérale associant une duplicité urétérale gauche et un diverticule congénital de l'uretère droit est rapportée et discutée dans cette observation rare qui illustre en fait un même processus malformatif arréte a un stade différent de son évolution.

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Cussenot, O., Desgrandchamps, F., Teillac, P. et al. Double ureter and congenital diverticulum of the ureter. Surg Radiol Anat 13, 323–326 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01627766

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