TABLE 6.

Patient cases where ureteric injury during hysterectomy caused loss of a kidney (N = 7)

	Patient 1	Patient 2	Patient 3	Patient 4	Patient 5	Patient 6	Patient 7
Approved claim	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Year of hysterectomy	2007	2011	2009	2009	2009	2014	2018
Year of complaint	2009	2013	2015	2012	2016	2017	2019
Injury discovered after	3 months	1 year	5 years	3 years	7 years	2 years	5 months
Age (years)	43	67	45	52	39	65	53
Indication for hysterectomy	Benign	Malignant	Benign	Benign	Benign	Benign	Benign
Hysterectomy approach	Laparotomy	Laparotomy	Laparotomy	Laparotomy	Laparotomy	Laparoscopy	Laparotomy
Main symptoms	Pain	Pain and infection	None	None	None	Pain	Pain, infection hypertension
Peroperative identification of the ureters	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes