RT Journal
A1 EISENDRATH DN
T1 THe repair of defects of the ureter
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1913
FD November 8
VO 61
IS 19
SP 1694
OP 1698
DO 10.1001/jama.1913.04350200020007
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1913.04350200020007
AB The surgeon is often confronted with a case in which a normal functionating kidney might be saved if a portion of the diseased ureter could be removed and the defect corrected either by some form of anastomosis of the severed ends or by substituting another structure for the removed segment of the ureter.Anastomosis of the two ends has been seldom successful in the human being, when the ureter was divided either accidentally during operation or by injury or intentionally during the removal of a diseased segment. The various methods which can be employed for an anastomosis of the severed ends are (a) end-to-end, (b) end-to-side (Van Hook), and (c) invagination methods (D. Antona). Of these the ingenious method of Van Hook seems the most rational. It is superfluous to quote the technic here, since it is so well illustrated and described in all of the standard text-books of surgery.