文摘
Injuries to the ureter are still a current problem in the assessment of reproaches for treatment errors following gynecological interventions; therefore, the topic was re-examined and a comparison of own previous data from the expert commission for North-Rhine with the numbers and types of errors from the North German arbitration board was undertaken. Out of a total of 13,322 assessed cases from North-Rhine over the period 2006–2014, there were 95 cases (0.7 %) of iatrogenic ureteral injuries in gynecology. For the North German arbitration board the figures were 0.5 % of 31,504 cases from the period 2000–2011. The proportion of ureteral lesions due to technical operational errors by gynecologists in the 919 cases in gynecology from North-Rhine was 2.2 %, which was double that of the North German arbitration board with 1.1 % from 2,892 cases. In 95 cases from North-Rhine, 35 reproachable treatment errors were determined, of which 32 were made by gynecologists (34 %) and 3 by urologists. The treatment error quota for gynecologists was therefore much lower than the error quota of 47 % reported from North Germany, was due to a higher number of errors in the follow-up care in the latter case.