OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy and safety of the laparoscopic management of an impacted distal ureteric stone in a bilharzial ureter, as bilharzial ureters are complicated by distal stricture caused by the precipitation of bilharzial ova in the distal ureter. These cases are associated with poorly functioning and grossly hydronephrotic kidneys that hinder the endoscopic manipulation of the...

Ureteroscopic lithotripsy using Swiss Lithoclast was performed in 411 cases from January 1996 to September 2007 in a single hospital. Medical records of 341 cases, in which Swiss Lithoclast was successfully applied, were available for this retrospective study. We used 9.5Fr and 10Fr Storz rigid ureteroscopes. A success was defined as being free of stone-related symptoms and residual stones larg...

INTRODUCTION To determine and evaluate the effective radiation exposure during a one year follow-up of urolithiasis patients following the SWL (extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy) treatment. MATERIAL AND METHODS Total Effective Radiation Exposure (ERE) doses for each of the 129 patients: 44 kidney stone patients, 41 ureter stone patients, and 44 multiple stone location patients were calcul...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to evaluate the factors influencing treatment option selection among urologists for patients with ureteral stones, according to the stone diameter and location. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the records of 360 consecutive patients who, between January 2009 and June 2014, presented to the emergency department with renal colic and were eventually diagnosed with urinary ...

A 42 years lady was reported. Patient was worked up and was found to have stone in the upper third of the right ureter. She underwent a session of Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL) but the stone was too hard to fragment in a single session. She then underwent ureterorenoscopy (URS) the next day. The ureteric orifice was very tight for negotiation of ureterorenoscope due to tight uret...

Foreign bodies placed into the ureter are uncommon. Unintentionally placed nonabsorbable sutures may cause obstruction and stone formation. If not recognized, the patient may become symptomatic. We present a diagnosis of a rare case from Turkey, in which a ureter stone was formed by a nonabsorbable suture in a male patient with a previous laparotomy.

A twenty-eight-year-old female with a history of suprapubic pain and recurrent urinary tract infections presents for urology referral with a kidney, ureter, and bladder radiograph showing a 4.4 cm bladder calculus and 6.5 cm distal left ureteral stone. She underwent effective cystolitholapaxy of the bladder stone. Endourologic attempt (left ureteroscopy) was unsuccessful because of ureteral sto...

PURPOSE This study was conducted to evaluate colic pain as a prognostic pretreatment factor that can influence ureter stone clearance and to estimate the probability of stone-free status in shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) patients with a ureter stone. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 1,418 patients who underwent their first SWL between 2005 and 2013. Among...

Conventional stone operations have decisively receded into the background due to modern methods of stone removal, e.g., extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy and endoscopic stone removal. The disadvantages of these modern methods are discussed. Because there are no complications by the conventional technics, which are still practised, the technical details are also discussed. Prof. D. Hauri, Ur...

The aim of our research is to evaluate whether there a relationship between the degree hydronephrosis and, size and location stones in ureter patients with ureteral stones, computed tomography (CT). 105 who applied Malatya Training Research Hospital complaint renal colic underwent CT scan were included study. Hydronephrosis was evaluated by using system developed Society Fetal Urology. Stone si...