ABSTRACT
Retroperitoneal fibrosis (RPF) was first reported in the literature in 1905 by the French urologist Alberran.1
However, its first moniker was Ormond’s disease, after Dr John Kelso Ormond described two patients with the disease in the 1948 issue of the Journal of Urology.2
Other names include periureteritis fibrosa, periureteritis plastica, chronic periureteritis, sclerosing retroperitoneal granuloma, and fibrous retroperitonitis. The classic presentation is a middle-aged patient with subacute back or abdominal pain, constitutional symptoms and localized dysfunction in the urinary, gastrointestinal, and arterial or venous vascular systems. A benign fibrous and inflammatory retroperitoneal mass is the culprit.
