Case Report
Adult Bilateral Ureteroceles Presenting with Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms and Acute Urinary Retention
Table 1
Review of literature of adult ureteroceles.
| Authors | Publication year | Mean age/Range | Number of cases | Bilateral | Urinary retention | Urolithiasis | Method of resection | F/U imaging | Complication |
| Jimenez et al. [8] | 1976 | 31 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | 0/1 | Transcutaneous puncture | N/A | N/A | Sehn et al. [7] | 1981 | 32 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | 0/1 | Transvesical excision and reimplantation | N/A | 0/1 | Sandhu et al. [9] | 1992 | N/A | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Sekine et al. [3] | 1996 | 40 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | 0/1 | Transverse incision Collin’s knife | IVU, VCUG | 0/1 | Chtourou et al. [13] | 2002 | 48.3 | 20 | 4/20 | N/S | 20/20 | Transverse incision Collin’s knife | VCUG | 1/20 with resolution at 6 months’ follow-up | Spatafora et al. [14] | 2006 | 18-62 | 15 | 4/15 | 0/15 | N/S | Transurethral transverse incision and percutaneous combined approach | VCUG | 2/15 low grade VUR | Shah et al. [9] | 2008 | 35 | 16 | 2/16 | N/S | 16/16 | Transverse incision Holium laser | U/S, IVU, VCUG | 3/16 low-grade VUR at 3months, with resolution at 6 months | Seibold et al. [16] | 2010 | 48 | 8 | 1/8 | 0/8 | 5/8 | Bugbee wire elec-trode | U/S, VCUG | 0/8 | Vijay et al. [11] | 2011 | 25 | 26 | 2/26 | 0/26 | 3/26 | Transverse incision Collin’s knife | U/S, IVU and VCUG | 2/26 Low grade VUR asymptomatic | Isen et al. [15] | 2012 | 47 | 5 | /05 | 0/5 | 2/5 | Nephroscopic scissors | VCUG | 0/5 | Westesson et al. [4] | 2013 | 41 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | 0/1 | Transverse incision | Nil | 0/1 | Sinha et al. [5] | 2014 | 35 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | Transurethral unroofing resection | N/A | 0/1 | Liu et al. [10] | 2015 | 31 | 30 | 2/30 | 0/30 | 2/30 | Transverse incision KTP Laser | U/S, IVU, VCUG | 1/30 grade I VUR with resolution at 6 months | Villagomez-Camargo et al. [6] | 2015 | 24 | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | 0/1 | Cohen’s reimplantation | Nil | 0/1 | Total | - | - | 127 | 18/127 | 7/91 | 52/111 | - | - | 9/127 low grade VUR. 5/9 had documented spontaneous resolution of VUR at 6 months. |
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