Technical report: the use of the reformed sidewinder loop in the dilated ureter.
A case is presented of a patient requiring percutaneous stenting of a ureteroenteric stricture. A hairpin bend between the strictured ureter and the ileal conduit was easily negotiated by reforming a Sidewinder loop within the contralateral ureter and withdrawing it until the tip entered the conduit. This technique does not appear to have been described before.
Kabala
J E
JE
Department of Radiodiagnosis, Bristol Royal Infirmary.
Watkinson
A F
AF
D000368:Aged; D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic / Q000628:therapy; D004106:Dilatation / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007082:Ileum / Q000601:surgery; D009403:Nephrostomy, Percutaneous / Q000379:methods*; D015607:Stents; D014513:Ureter / Q000601:surgery; D014515:Ureteral Diseases / Q000628:therapy*