The patient was a 70-year-old woman with a chief complaint of right hydronephrosis and hydroureter detected by ultrasound by a local doctor. She came to our hospital in January, 2014 for further examination. Because a tumor was discovered in her right upper ureter by computed tomography (CT) and retrograde pyelography, a right laparoscopic nephroureterectomy was perfomed on the suspicion of a right ureter carcinoma (clinical stage T2 N0M0).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe patient was a 67-year-old man with end stage renal failure. Hemodialysis had been started in 1998. An expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) graft was inserted into his left forearm and used for vascular access.
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