The Ureter

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Development of the Ureter

   • Emil A. Tanagho

   Pages 1-12

3. Histology of the Ureter

   • Joseph Thomas Velardo

   Pages 13-54

4. Anatomy and Ultrastructure of the Ureter

   • Joseph E. Davis, Johanna P. Hagedoorn, Louis L. Bergmann

   Pages 55-70

5. Principles of Ureteral Physiology

   • Saul Boyarsky, Peregrina Labay

   Pages 71-104

6. Pathology of the Ureter

   • Alfred Schwarz

   Pages 105-136

7. Effect of Drugs on the Ureter

   • Robert M. Weiss

   Pages 137-162

8. Clinical Application of Hydrodynamics of the Ureter and Renal Pelvis

   • Moneer K. Hanna

   Pages 163-178

9. Ureteral Reconstitution

   • Frank Hinman Jr.

   Pages 179-185

10. Splinting Versus Nonsplinting in Ureteral Surgery

    • Lester Persky, James Krause

    Pages 187-192

11. Diseases of the Ureter

    • Marco Caine

    Pages 193-223

12. Idiopathic Retroperitoneal Fibrosis

    • John K. Ormond

    Pages 225-245

13. Ureteral Calculi

    • Drogo K. Montague, Ralph A. Straffon

    Pages 247-269

14. Ureteral Tumors

    • Harry Bergman, Robert S. Hotchkiss

    Pages 271-299

15. Radical Versus Conservative Therapy for Primary Carcinoma of the Ureter

    • Jerome P. Richie

    Pages 301-304

16. Radiographic Examination of the Ureter

    • Richard M. Friedenberg, Walter E. Bottizer

    Pages 305-388

17. Cineradiography of the Ureter

    • Guy W. Leadbetter Jr.

    Pages 389-391

18. Radiosotopes (Radionuclides) in Diagnosis and Management of Ureteral Disorders

    • Chester C. Winter

    Pages 393-395

19. Ureterorenoscopy and Transurethral Endoscopic Surgery of the Ureter and Renal Pelvis

    • Irving M. Bush, Paul R. Fieldstone, Patrick Guinan

    Pages 397-415

20. The Role of Radiation Therapy in Primary Carcinoma of the Ureter

    • Luther W. Brady, Dennis M. Manning

    Pages 417-420

This volume, focusing on the ureter and the diseases which involve it, is an updated second edition. Many journals and textbooks deal with the physiology, pathology, diagnosis, and therapy of derangements of the urinary tract. In most instances, however, the discussion properly centers on the disease process itself and its primary aspects, with only a tan­ gential description of effects on the ureter. The editor is therefore correct that the ureter itself should be considered a major organ. Though it has been regarded in the recent past as a simple muscular tube, reacting to stretching or filling by contraction, this simplistic view of ureteral phys­ iology is changing fast. With expanded knowledge of ureteral physiology, a pharmacology is developing which is becoming useful to the clinician in many ways. One of the most interesting aspects of the ureter is its role in inducing the permanent kidney, the metanephros. Relatively slight displacements in the origin of the ureteral bud result in ectopic ureteral orifices and a wide range of congenital anomalies. An ureteral bud which arises medial to the normal position at the genu of the mesonephric duct results in a lateral, and usually incompetent, ureterovesical junction after the duct is taken up to form a portion ofthe trigone. This appears certainly to be the developmental mechanism which results in primary reflux.

• Harnröhrenerkrankung
• Ureter
• anatomy
• carcinoma
• histology
• kidney
• pediatrics
• pharmacology
• radiation therapy
• surgery
• transplantation

• New York Medical College, Valhalla, USA

  Harry Bergman

• Department of Urology, University of Miami Medical School, Miami, USA

  Harry Bergman

• Hollywood, USA

  Harry Bergman

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