Urology

RECENT advances in urology include studies of the renal blood supply, the effects of renal ischemia, and investigations into the causes and treatment of renal insufficiency. Studies of the physiology of the ureter have shown how this organ reacts under varying conditions and have disproved many mistaken beliefs of the past. Advances also have been made in the operative management of certain lesions of the genitourinary organs.Renal Blood SupplyThe presence of more than one pathway for the circulation of blood within the kidneys has been considered a possibility since Bowman's studies of the renal circulation in 1842. Nonglomerular . . .