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[A bifid ureter with a blind branch]
1Servicio de Urología, Hospital General Docente Guillermo Domínguez, Puerto Padre, Las Tunas, Cuba.
Objective:
To report on a case of bifid ureter with a blind-ending branch.
Methods:
A case of bifid right ureter with a blind-ending branch and complete duplication of the contralateral ureter in a 38-year-old female patient is described. The patient had consulted for pain referred to the right iliac fossa and recurrent urinary infection.
Results:
An excretory urogram disclosed the ureteric anomaly, which was confirmed by retrograde pyelography. Uretero-ureteric reflux to the blind-ending branch was found during surgery and excision of the blind-ending branch was performed.
Conclusions:
This ureteric anomaly is basically diagnosed radiologically. Treatment is initially conservative, although complications or severe symptoms may warrant surgical excision of the blind-ending ureter.