Instead, transitional cell carcinoma starts in your renal pelvis, the top part of your ureter. Your ureter is the tube that ...

called the renal pelvis. This is the part of a kidney where urine collects before being passed to a ureter—and the site where ...

This is known as a urethral stricture. Sometimes, the way your kidney develops before birth blocks the uretero-pelvic junction. Other times, these obstructions arise later in life. Treatment for a ...

The scarred upper ureter and fully contracted renal pelvis were identified, mobilized and removed with much difficulty owing to the severe adhesion, necrotic tissues and scar formation.

abdominal and pelvis CT, renal ultrasonography, cystoscopy, anterograde pyelogram, bladder biopsy. Diagnosis. Malacoplakia involving bilatateral ureters and bladder; cavitary pneumonia.