Table 2

Correctable Urologic Abnormalities That Cause Bacterial Persistence

• Infection stones
  
  
• Chronic bacterial prostatitis
  
  
• Unilateral infected atrophic kidneys
  
  
• Ureteral duplication and ectopic ureters
  
  
• Foreign bodies
  
  
• Urethral diverticula and infected paraurethral glands
  
  
• Nonrefluxing, normal-appearing, infected ureteral stumps
  
  
• After nephrectomy
  
  
• Infected urachal cysts
  
  
• Infected communicating cysts of the renal calyces
  
  
• Papillary necrosis
  
  
• Paravesical abscess with fistula to bladder

(Courtesy of Cambell's Urology 7th edition, with the permission of W.B. Saunders)

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