1975 Volume 27 Issue 5 Pages 441-448
The case was a 53 years old woman with uterine myoma and vaginal cyst, suffering from intermittent complte urinary retention for several years and repeating occasional high fever which had no relation with the urinary retention. As a result of various examinations, inter mittent complete urinary retention was presumably caused by retroflexed uterus of newborn baby's head size, but the source of the high fever remained unknown.
Abdominal hysterectomy carried out on May 2, 1974 revealed that the left ureter was doubled, and one of the mchanged to a solid tube of 1.0-1.5cm in diameter over the whole length.
The upper end of the tube ended with a thumb sized cul-de-sac at the height of the first to second lumber vertebra. On the other hand, the lower end of the tube was narrowed and obstructed just above the urinary bladder.
The tube was filled with pus which certainly was the cause of occasional high fever.
