Repair of iatrogenic ureteral injury secondary to breast cancer metastasis.

Urol Case Rep

Habor UCLA Medical Center, Urology Department, 1000 West Carson Street, Torrance, CA, 90509, USA.

Published: January 2020

We present a case of unforeseen ureteral metastasis from a primary breast cancer. A ureteral injury leak was postoperatively recognized after a hysterectomy and bilateral oophorectomy were performed. Subsequent repair with a psoas hitch ureteral re-implant was performed and breast cancer metastasis was discovered in the ureteral stump specimen.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6796656PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2019.101024DOI Listing

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