Ureteral Trauma: Multimedia

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Further Reading

For more information, see Medscape's Trauma Resource Center.

Keywords

ureteral trauma, ureter injury, ureteral injury, ureteral laceration, ureteral damage, abdominal gunshot wound, blunt trauma, iatrogenic ureteral injury, ureteroneocystostomy, vesicopsoas hitch, Boari bladder flap, ureteroureterostomy, transureteroureterostomy, TUU, autotransplantation, ileal ureteral substitution, nephrectomy, retrograde ureteral stent placement, abdominopelvic surgery, ureteroscopy, abdominal hysterectomy

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Richard A Santucci, MD, FACS, Chief of Urology, Detroit Receiving Hospital; Specialist-in-Chief of Urology, Detroit Medical Center; Chief of Urologic Trauma Surgery, Sinai Grace Hospital; Director, The Center for Urologic Reconstruction; Clinical Professor of Urology, Michigan State College of Medicine
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