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Tsubasa Shironomae1, Kiyohide Sakai1, Keiko Ainoya1
1Department of Urology, Miyagi Children's Hospital, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.
Abstract:
We experienced an extremely rare case of ureteral sextuplication with a blind-ending ureter originating from the upper pole. The patient had 6 separate ureters and 6 renal pelvises with 1 ureteral orifice on the left. The left kidney was hypoplastic and its differential function was 6.5%. The patient underwent definitive surgical treatment to repair the anomaly (ureteroureterostomy and reimplantation of the formed ureter). The surgery was successful and the postoperative course was uneventful. We herein report the first such case in the English-language literature and discuss the etiology of this ureteral anomaly, the method of diagnostic imaging, and the treatment.
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