[Morphologic findings on the terminal tract of the ureter in patients with primary vesico-ureteral reflux].

Primary vesico-ureteral reflux (V.U.R.) in children has been widely investigated in several reports in the last two decades, but the morphologic aspects of refluxing vesico-ureteral junction are still incompletely codified or incompletely described. The authors report the results of a histologic study on the terminal refluxing ureter in a group of 20 patients with primitive V.U.R., random chosen from a series of over 400 subjects who underwent antireflux surgery for primitive V.U.R. at the Pediatric Surgery Department of the University of Bologna. Connections between muscular hypertrophy and reflux degree are herein reported and discussed.