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There are a number of diseases, evidently congenital in origin, which produce a localized narrowing in the ureter with obstruction to the passage of urine yet which strangely offer little or no resistance to the passage of catheters or probes. Depending upon their location, they are known by any of a wide variety of names such as ureteropelvic junction obstruction (Shopfner), congenital hydronephrosis (Murnaghan), functional stenosis (Bäcklund), achalasia of the ureter (Hepler), megaureter (Williams), atonic distal segment (Creevy), megaloureter (Caulk), and congenital ureteral strictures (Cambell), but seldom have they been considered together as a single entity. As this study proposes to show however there are valid reasons for believing that they are all examples of the same basic pathological process. For the purposes of this report, they will be referred to as congenital ureteral strictures regardless of their location.
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Allen, T.D. (1973). Congenital Ureteral Strictures. In: Lutzeyer, W., Melchior, H. (eds) Urodynamics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65640-8_23
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