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FROM January 1st 1975 to December 31st, 1984, 466 renal transplants were performed at our institution. There were 454 case records available for study. There were twenty-eight urological complications in the series. This represents an overall incidence of 6.2%. Eighteen of these complications were ureteral fistulae and ten were ureteral obstructions. Surgical correction was successful in 85% of these patients.
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Hickey, D.P., Glacken, P., Gawley, W. et al. Urological complications in 454 renal transplants. I.J.M.S. 157, 222–225 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02949305
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