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Abstract
Blockage in any part of the URETER causing obstruction of urine flow from the kidney to the URINARY BLADDER. The obstruction may be congenital, acquired, unilateral, bilateral, complete, partial, acute, or chronic. Depending on the degree and duration of the obstruction, clinical features vary greatly such as HYDRONEPHROSIS and obstructive nephropathy.
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- Obstruction, Ureteral
- Obstructions, Ureteral
- Ureteral Obstructions
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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do not confuse with URETHRAL OBSTRUCTION, especially in Romance languages: see note on "ureteral" & "urethral" under URETERAL DISEASES
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Ureteral Obstruction. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D014517. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D014517
- Ureteral Obstruction. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18556674