title: Ureteral quintuplication with renal atrophy in an infant after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
abstract: Ureteral duplication is a comparatively frequent urinary tract anomaly. Ureteral triplication is rare, but quadruplication is extremely rare. In this study, we describe a case of ureteral quintuplication, the first such report in the English-language literature. A newborn female baby was diagnosed with left ureteral quintuplication. The left ureter was divided into 5 ureters with 5 renal pelvises within approximately 3 cm of the urinary bladder, and trace parenchyma of the kidney was noted. The patient was born within 60 km of the epicenter of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, 24 years after the catastrophic nuclear accident, and is currently aged 3 years.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Children's Hospital in Dziekanow Lesny, Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Beata
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jurkiewicz
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Military Institute of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland. Electronic address: urodent@wp.pl.
authors.forename: Tomasz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ząbkowski
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Zhytomyr Regional Child's Hospital, Ukraine.
authors.forename: Dmitrij
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Shevchuk
mesh_terms: D001284:Atrophy / Q000150:complications; D047852:Chernobyl Nuclear Accident; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology*; D013997:Time Factors; D014513:Ureter / Q000002:abnormalities*