Robbins Ch. 21 - Lower UT and Male Genital System I Flashcards
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muscularis propriae
muscle bundles of detrusor muscle
-bladder cancers that invade this layer are staged differnetly
urine flow obstructed
bladder musculature hypertopy
operations of female genital tract
ureters lie close to uterine arteries
-vulnerable to injury
narrowing of the ureter
ureteropelvic junction
where enter bladder
cross iliac vessels
-all locations where calculi may cause blockage
prolapse of uterus
descent - pulls with it the floor of the bladder
-creates cystocele - bladder pouch in vagina
prostate and seminal vesicles
just posterior to the neck of bladder
-can cause obstruction
double ureter
aka bifid
- distinct renal pelvises
- drain to bladder at single ureteral orifice
ureteropelvic junction obstruction
UPJ
- most common cause of hydronephrosis in infants and children
- more in males - bilateral
- often with congenital anomalies
- can be agenesis of contralateral kidney
- adults - more common in women - unilateral
- abnormal organization of smooth m. at UPJ leads to excess stroma and collagen between smooth m.
diverticula
outpouching of ureter wall
-most asymptomatic - but can recurrent infection
ureteritis
not clinically significant
ureteritis follicularis
fine granular mucosa surface of uterer
ureteritis cystica
mucosa has multiple fine cysts lined with flattened epithelium
benign tumors of ureter
typically mesenchyme origin
fibro-epithelial polyp
children
- small mass projecting into lumen
- loose vascularized CT overlaid with urothelium
urothelial carcinomas
malignant tumors of ureter, renal pelvis, calyces, blader
- 60-70yo
- sometimes multifocal
unilateral ureter obstruction
proximal causes
bilateral ureter obstruction
distal causes
sclerosing retroperitoneal fibrosis
fibrotic proliferative inflammatory process encasing retroperitoneal structures
- causes hydronephrosis
- middle to late aged - more in men
- IgG4-related
- can involve other exocrine organs - pancreas / salivary
- associated with drugs, inflammatory conditions, malignancies
- microscopic - fibrous tissue - lymphocyte infiltreate - IgG4 positive - eosinophilia
- treatment - corticosteroids - stents - surgery (ureterolysis)
cystitis
common in young women
VUR
most common and serious congenital anomaly
congenital vesicouterine fistula
abnormal connections between bladder and vagina, rectum, or uterus
acquired diverticula of bladder
often with prostatit enlargement
exstrophy of the bladder
developmental failure - anterior abdomen and bladder
-open sac or open to abdominal wall
- exposed mucosa - colonic glandular metaplasia
- subject to infection
- increased risk of adenocarcinoma
- Tx - surgery
urachal anomalies
urachus - bladder to allantois
- normally obliterated
- sometimes remains patent
- total - fistulous urinary tract
- partial - urachal cysts
carcinomas may arise from cysts