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A Review and Report of a Case

JOHN P. FOTOPOULOS, M.D.; HOWARD C. BURKHEAD, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1961;82(2):290-292.

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The presence of a ureter in a hernia must be a rare occurrence. In 1946, Watson¹ accumulated from the literature 102 cases of hernia of the ureter, including 71 collected by Dourmashkin² in 1937. The location of the hernia varies. Lindbom³ describes a patient whose ureter had herniated into the sciatic foramen and had become obstructed. This patient was treated by resection of the strangulated ureter and reimplantation into the bladder. Beck et al.⁴ also reported herniation of a ureter into the sciatic foramen with marked hydroureter and hydronephrosis proximal to the site of herniation. This hernia was reducible, without resection, along with its entire sac.

In 1958, Jewett and Harris⁵ reported a scrotal hernia containing a ureter in a 9-year-old boy. The repair in this case necessitated resection of about 20 cm. of the dilated, redundant, thick-walled ureter. There was no hernia sac, but . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
EVANSTON, ILL.

Associate Director, Department of Roentgenology, Evanston Hospital, and Associate in Radiology, Northwestern University Medical School (Dr. Fotopoulos); Chairman, Department of Roentgenology, Evanston Hospital, and Associate in Radiology, Northwestern University Medical School (Dr. Burkhead).

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Submitted for publication June 25, 1960.

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