Experience with surgical management of ectopic ureterocele.

We evaluated 16 children with ectopic ureterocele diagnosed and treated between 1970 and 1980. The clinical presentation, radiological findings and operative management are presented and discussed. Since ectopic ureterocele has a broad spectrum of presentation and pathophysiology, treatment must be individualized. Upper pole heminephrectomy with partial ureterectomy, thus avoiding ligation of the ureteral stump, is the preferred surgical treatment. Transurethral uncapping of the ureterocele is indicated only for extremely ill infants with severe septicemia that does not respond to conservative treatment. Unsuspected ectopic ureterocele discovered incidentally during surgery is best managed either by upper pole nephro-ureterectomy or reimplantation of both ureters in their common sheath.