title: Total nephroureterectomy with ureteral intussusception and transurethral ureteral detachment and pull-through.
abstract: We describe a technique for nephroureterectomy that includes ureteral intussusception and transurethral ureteral resection and our method for transurethral ureteral pull-through. These adjuncts permit total nephroureterectomy through a single skin incision and are appropriate in all cases except in patients with known high-grade transitional cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis or ureter. In 18 cases, these techniques have been shown to be reliable, safe, and rapid; in the 14 patients under observation for five years or longer, there have been no local recurrences of tumor.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002295:Carcinoma, Transitional Cell / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D007682:Kidney Pelvis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009392:Nephrectomy / Q000379:methods*; D011187:Posture; D014513:Ureter / Q000601:surgery*; D014516:Ureteral Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D014521:Urethra / Q000601:surgery