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The recent surgical and legal literature has tried to pinpoint, without any real success, the causes for the increased number of malpractice actions brought against physicians. This chapter will not attempt to determine why this phenomenon has occurred. Rather, a review of the legal positions of the urologic surgeon relative to his patient in the eyes of the law is presented. Specifically, the author hopes to place into proper perspective the surgical and legal aspects of an injury to the ureter when it occurs in an individual.
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Orkin, L.A. (1981). The Surgical Legal Aspects of Ureteral Injury. In: Bergman, H. (eds) The Ureter. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5907-7_24
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