A Note on Congenital Dilatation of the Ureters with Hydronephrosis

?cases were practically identical, differing only in degree. The most marked case was that in the child dying youngest, but this was the one complicated by spina bifida. In all three there was marked hypertrophy of the bladder; the ureters were dilated and tortuous, and the kidneys hydronephrotic. In all of them a catheter was easily passed post mortem, and no evidence of a urethral valve or other cause of obstruction to the urethra could be discovered on dissection.