On the origin and progress of renal surgery : with special reference to stone in the kidney and ureter and to the surgical treatment of calculous anuria being the Hunterian lectures for 1898 together with a critical examination of subparietal injuries of the ureter / by Henry Morris.

Date:: 1898

Credit: On the origin and progress of renal surgery : with special reference to stone in the kidney and ureter and to the surgical treatment of calculous anuria being the Hunterian lectures for 1898 together with a critical examination of subparietal injuries of the ureter / by Henry Morris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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$Primary partial ureterectomy was performed first by Tiiffier in 1891, tlien by Postnikow in 1892, by Kelly and myself in 1893 ; and I have recently published a case in which the ureter was extensivel}^ calcareous, upon which I operated in August, 1895 (see Fig. 13). {Lancet, 1898, vol. i., p. 18.) Two different routes have been followed in the complete removal, namely, the transperitoneal and the extraperitoneal; Fig. 13.—Kidney and portion of ureter (half original size) removed for tuberculous disease of the kidney and ureter. [Midalesex Hosiiital ]\fiiseum. Author’s case. Table VII., No. 10 ) but the latter, when the incision indicated in the accompany- ing diagram (Fig. 24, p. 117) is adopted, gives so complete and satisfactory a field for the necessary manipulations, and has other anatomical and surgical advantages, that it is not prob- able the transjieritoneal method will find any followers. Several different routes have been taken or suggested for partial ureterectomy affecting the lower part of the duct.$