Abstract
In a 15-year-old boy right lower abdominal colicky pain was caused by intermittent obstruction of the ureter by stones which had accumulated in a ureteric diverticulum. As was shown by repeated X-rays, each of these stones had moved to the ureter and back to the diverticulum. Ureteric diverticulum mostly remains asymptomatic in children: stone formation and obstruction of the ureter by the stones is one of the instances which may cause symptoms.
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Roodhooft, A.M., Boven, K., Gentens, P. et al. Abdominal colic due to ureteric diverticulum with stone formation. Pediatr Radiol 17, 252–253 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02388176
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02388176