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- Ectopic ureters in females typically show symptoms of incontinence from a young age, often unnoticed in healthy girls.
- Children who experience continuous urinary wetting despite proper toilet training should be evaluated for potential ectopic ureter issues.
- Failure to diagnose can lead to serious complications like kidney damage due to reflux or obstruction.
Article Abstract
Ectopic ureter, particularly in females, often presents at a young age as incontinence. Otherwise healthy girls who have continuous urinary wetting during day and night despite adequate toilet training should be held with a high level of suspicion for an extravesical infrasphincteric ectopic ureteral orifice. If such a diagnosis goes undiscovered, frequent reflux or obstruction may cause permanent damage to the renal unit, as in the patient discussed here.
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