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URETERAL KINKS

1930; American Medical Association; Volume: 94; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1001/jama.1930.02710370015006

2376-8118

Gershom J. Thompson, Hermon C. Bumpus,

Urological Disorders and Treatments

Each year, in the urologic section of the Mayo Clinic, more patients are seen than in the year before who state that they have been informed that a kink in one of their ureters is responsible for their rather indefinite symptoms and that its surgical correction is urgent. On general examination, evidence of renal ptosis is not demonstrable and pyelograms fail to show the kink previously pointed out to the patient. This discrepancy has occurred so often that we recently reviewed our old pyelograms in order to ascertain the frequency of ureteral kinks. We were astonished to find how frequently a kink would be present in one roentgenogram but absent in a subsequent exposure, although the identical portion of the ureter might have been exposed but a few minutes later. The literature contains several articles calling attention to the part that a ureteral kink may play in the production of