Abdominal colic due to ureteric diverticulum with stone formation.
In a 15-year-old boy right lower abdominal colicky pain was caused by intermittent obstruction of the ureter by stones which had accumulated in a ureteric diverticulum. As was shown by repeated X-rays, each of these stones had moved to the ureter and back to the diverticulum. Ureteric diverticulum mostly remains asymptomatic in children: stone formation and obstruction of the ureter by the stones is one of the instances which may cause symptoms.
D000293:Adolescent; D003085:Colic / Q000209:etiology*; D004240:Diverticulum / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014514:Ureteral Calculi / Q000150:complications*; D014515:Ureteral Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D014517:Ureteral Obstruction / Q000209:etiology