ureters
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Before the surgery, Mayo printed a 3-D model of the girl’s pelvis, scaled to size and showing her bladder, veins, blood vessels, ureters and the tumor.
His kidney failure stemmed from malfunctioning ureters, the tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder.
From Washington Times
There was a tumor near her colon and another that had begun blocking off one of her ureters, which carry urine from the kidney to the bladder.
From Washington Post
Such defects include being born with a single kidney, having kidney swelling or enlarged ureters, the urine-carrying tubes, said lead researcher Dr. Ian Macumber, a pediatric nephrology fellow at Seattle Children's Hospital.
From US News
The resulting stones can be extremely painful as they move through the ureters to be excreted and in some instances require surgery to remove.
From Scientific American
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