Ureter
71pipestem ureter — stenosis and calcification of a ureter, seen as a complication of renal tuberculosis that has spread into the ureter …
72postcaval ureter — retrocaval ureter a congenital anomaly in which the right ureter passes posterior to the inferior vena cava and curves around it back to the usual anterior position for descent to the bladder. Called also circumcaval u …
73bifid ureter — a ureter in which proximal segments come from two different collecting systems but join before reaching the bladder …
74ectopic ureter — a ureter that opens elsewhere than in the bladder wall, usually arising from the upper segment of a double kidney. In women it may open in the vestibule, terminal urethra, vagina, cervix, or uterine cavity; in men it invariably enters the genital …
75lower pole ureter — the ureter draining the lower pole of a duplex kidney …
76retroiliac ureter — a congenital anomaly in which a ureter passes behind the iliac artery …
77upper pole ureter — the ureter draining the upper pole of a duplex kidney …
78stage I transitional cell cancer of the renal pelvis and ureter — Cancer has spread through the lining of the renal pelvis and/or ureter, into the layer of connective tissue …
79stage II transitional cell cancer of the renal pelvis and ureter — Cancer has spread through the layer of connective tissue to the muscle layer of the renal pelvis and/or ureter …
80stage III transitional cell cancer of the renal pelvis and ureter — Cancer has spread either (1) to the layer of fat outside the renal pelvis and/or ureter; or (2) into the wall of the kidney …