Surgical management of bilateral ureteral endometriosis.

Int Urol Nephrol

Department of Urology, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, 101 The City Drive, Bldg 26, Rm 24, Route 81, Orange, CA 92868, USA.

Published: September 2007

Ureteral endometriosis is a rare disease that typically is unilateral. Endometriosis involving both ureters and surgical management after hormone therapy failure has seldom been described. We describe a patient with bilateral ureteral endometriosis who underwent ureteroneocystostomy with psoas hitches of both ureters. A 33-year-old woman with advanced endometriosis and recurrent pyelonephritis was found to have high-grade bilateral ureteral obstruction at the pelvic inlet from ureteral endometriosis. The patient subsequently underwent a supracervical hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, ureterolysis, and ureteroneocystostomy with psoas hitches and ureteral stent placements. Surgical therapy is reserved for advanced disease with the optimal choice being a ureteral reimplantation with a psoas hitch. The key operative point for a successful psoas hitch ureteral reimplantation is completely mobilizing the bladder anteriorly and laterally.

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