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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1977-4-25
pubmed:abstractText
Schistosomal obstructive uropathy was studied by clinical, laboratory epidemiologic and pathologic analysis in 155 Egyptian patients treated surgically. Most patients were men; rural farmers or laborers. All had severe urinary schistosomiasis with heavy burdens of Schistosoma haematobium eggs in their urinary tracts. Schistosomal incomplete ureteral stenosis and schistosomal stenosis with ureterolithiasis were the most important obstructive lesions; these lesions were symmetrical and most frequent in the interstitial ureters decreasing proximally. The pathogenesis of these lesions is dependent upon focal destruction of ureteral muscle. The ureteral lesions proximal and consequent to schistosomal obstructive lesions are hydroureters resulting from active dilatation (due to increased hydrostatic pressure consequent to obstruction) and passive dilatation (due to loss of circular muscle action in sites of oviposition in the proximal ureter). Various combinations of these lesions with superimposed effects of bacterial infection and ureterolithiasis produce the spectrum of ureteral lesions attributable to urinary schistosomiasis.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0002-9637
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
26
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
96-103
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1977
pubmed:articleTitle
Surgical pathology of schistosomal obstructive uropathy: a clinicopathologic correlation.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.