Professor of Surgery University of Pennsylvania Penn Valley, Pennsylvania
Distal ureteral obstructions are a common indication for surgical intervention in our companion animals. Traditional treatments that rely on the native tissue for repair often involve an end-to-side neoureterocystostomy (ureteral reimplantation) using either an intravesicular or extravesicular technique. This presentation describes the use of a variation of a novel technique, previously described for the treatment of proximal ureteral obstructions in cats, to treat distal ureteral obstructions in two canine patients not amenable to a traditional repair.
