An American text-book of genito-urinary diseases, syphilis and diseases of the skin (1898) (14596003940)
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Title: An American text-book of genito-urinary diseases, syphilis and diseases of the skin
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Bangs, Lemuel Bolton, 1842-1914 Hardaway, W. A. (William Augustus), 1850-1923
Subjects: Urogenital System Urination Disorders Syphilis Skin Diseases
Publisher: Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons
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Fig. 202.—Hydronephrosis: dilatationof pelvis and calyces of kidney (Specimen1346, Museum N. Y. Hosp.). Fig. 203.—Hydronephrosis: kidney converted into sac(Specimen 3032, Museum N. Y. Hosp.). Anomalies of the ureter also obstruct the escape of urine, as strictures dueto ulcerations from any cause or kinking of the ureter in case of movablekidney, or there may be congenital obliteration of one of the ureters or theureter may join the pelvis of the kidney at an acute angle and form a valve.For fuller details the reader is referred to the section on Diseases of theUreter. 572 THE SURGICAL DISEASES OF THE KIDNEY. Bilateral dilatation of the pelvis of the kidney may be due to any of theconditions before mentioned acting on both ureters, but more often is causedby obstructions of the urethra, as phimosis, congenital or acquired stricture, orabsence of the urethra, or enlargement of the prostate. Symptoms.—Moderate unilateral dilatation of the pelvis of the kidneymay give no symptoms a