A one-stage surgical approach to ectopic ureterocele.
Whenever a ureterectomy for treatment of ectopic ureterocele is appropriate total extravesical excision avoiding a ureteral stump is the preferred approach to avoid a pyoureter or alternating diverticulum and possible surgical complications from an intravesical procedure in small infants and children with large and distorting ectopic ureteroceles.
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008722:Methods; D014513:Ureter / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery; D014518:Ureterocele / Q000601:surgery*; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000601:surgery