McNab Andrea, Williams Christopher
Department of Surgery, University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Urol Case Rep. 2014 May 16;2(3):121-2. doi: 10.1016/j.eucr.2014.02.007. eCollection 2014 May.
Ectopic ureter, particularly in females, often presents at a young age as incontinence. Otherwise healthy girls who have continuous urinary wetting during day and night despite adequate toilet training should be held with a high level of suspicion for an extravesical infrasphincteric ectopic ureteral orifice. If such a diagnosis goes undiscovered, frequent reflux or obstruction may cause permanent damage to the renal unit, as in the patient discussed here.