The Management of Delayed Recognized Ureteral Injuries

Of the 90 cases of ureteral injuries reviewed 51 injuries were recognized immediately, while 39 were recognized in the delayed period. Although the over-all difference in results between those treated immediately and those receiving delayed treatment was relatively small, when the cases were further subdivided by etiology and time of recognition into immediate and delayed iatrogenic injuries and traumatic injuries the difference in results was striking. This fact had been suspected clinically but not well documented previously in the urologic literature.