Penrose mentions the
absence of the upper two-thirds of the left ureter, with a small
cystic kidney, and there are parallel cases on record.
The ureters sometimes have anomalous terminations either in the
rectum, vagina, or directly in the urethra. This latter
disposition is realized normally in a number of animals and
causes the incessant flow of urine, resulting in a serious
inconvenience. Flajani speaks of the termination of the ureters
in the pelvis; Nebel has seen them appear just beneath the
umbilicus; and Lieutaud describes a man who died at thirty-five,
from another cause, whose ureters, as large as intestines,
terminated in the urethral canal, causing him to urinate
frequently; the bladder was absent. In the early part of this
century there was a young girl examined in New York whose ureters
emptied into a reddish carnosity on the mons veneris. The urine
dribbled continuously, and if the child cried or made any
exertion it came in jets. The genital organs participated but
little in the deformity, and with the exception that the
umbilicus was low and the anus more anterior than natural, the
child was well formed and its health good. Colzi reports a case
in which the left ureter opened externally at the left side of
the hymen a little below the normal meatus urinarius.
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