A new technique for retrograde stone displacement in the tortuous ureter before extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy.
A tortuous ureter can prevent a ureteral calculus from being manipulated into the kidney before extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. We describe a technique using a floppy-tip guide wire and a double channel cystoscope to manipulate a stone from a tortuous ureter into the kidney.
Department of Urology, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville.
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Pryor
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Gillenwater
D000368:Aged; D003558:Cystoscopy; D006801:Humans; D008096:Lithotripsy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014513:Ureter / Q000473:pathology*; D014514:Ureteral Calculi / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D014546:Urinary Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation; D014572:Urology / Q000379:methods*