Open antireflux surgery for the child whose vesicoureteric reflux has not settled and keeps causing febrile infection, shown here on both sides.
Through the opened bladder each refluxing ureter is freed on a cuff of mucosa, drawn across the trigone under the mucosa, and sewn to a new opening on the far side: the left ureter above the interureteric bar, the right below it.
The cross-trigonal route is chosen because it gives a long tunnel with good muscle behind it from a ureter that keeps its own hiatus. The price is paid later: each orifice faces across the bladder, so a stone in that ureter in adult life is hard to reach from below.
The lesson is the layers on the way in, the blood supply in the adventitia, the plane the tunnel lives in, and three checks before the first bite: no twist, no kink, no tension.