TY  - JOUR
T1  - USe of appendix to splice the ureter
Y1  - 1909/09/25
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1909.02550130058014
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1042
EP  - 1043
VL  - LIII
IS  - 13
N2  - To the Editor: 
    —The article on splicing the ureter, by Dr. Harvey P. Jack in The Journal (Aug. 28, 1909, liii, 717) prompts me to report the results of some experiments of my own, carried on in the experimental laboratory of Tulane University during 1908.In a series of experiments undertaken on dogs to find some satisfactory method to splice or graft a damaged or diseased ureter, the appendix was used in a limited number with the following results: While the transplantation and anastomosing could be easily done, infection of the kidney invariably followed in from one to three weeks and ultimately caused the loss of the animals. Various means were resorted to to clean the inside of the appendix; it was swung out of the cavity and copiously flushed, but, as was to be expected, cleansing by this method was impossible.Some of the transplantations were done with the
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.02550130058014
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02550130058014
ER  -