Author: Glossary

The orifice through which the ureter enters the urinary bladder. The entrance of the ureter into the bladder.  

Suture of the ureter (e.g., when repairing a fistula). Surgical stitching of a ureter.  

Suppurative inflammation within a ureter. Inflammation of a ureter accompanied by the formation of pus.  

Plastic surgery of the ureter and renal pelvis.  

Inflammation of the pelvis of the kidney and a ureter. Inflammation affecting both a ureter and the kidney’s pelvis.  

Plastic surgery of the junction of the ureter and the pelvis of the kidney. The formation of a passage from the ureter to the lower rectum.  

Excision of a portion of the ureter with attachment of the severed end of the lower portion to a new opening in the renal pelvis.  

Dilatation of the ureter and the pelvis of the kidney resulting from a mechanical or inflammatory obstruction in the urinary tract. Surgical anastomosis of a ureter to an isolated segment of the ileum. The ileum is connected to an abdominal stoma so that urine leaves the body via that opening.  

In cases of reduplication of the upper urinary tract on one side, surgical removal of the reduplicated portion.  

Radiography of the ureter after injection of a radiopaque substance into it.