title: Laser endoscopic incision: a viable alternative to treat adult ureterocele.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To prospectively evaluate the safety. efficacy, feasibility and outcome of Nd-Yag laser endoscopic incision in adult symptomatic patients with intravesical uretroceles.
  
  
  METHODS
  We present our experience with the use of Nd-Yag laser for endoscopic incision of the adult ureterocele in a group of five symptomatic adult patients.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All the five patients showed excellent decompression with relief from flank pain and hydronephrosis and none demonstrated a post-op vesicoureteric reflux (VUR).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Laser endoscopic management of intravesical ureteroceles is new emerging modality, which is being increasingly employed to decompress ureteroceles. Laser endoscopic incision is a precise and bloodless procedure enabling a clean accurate controlled cut through the endoscope as opposed to the traditional bugbee electrode.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. narmadagupta@hotmail.com
authors.forename: N P
authors.initials: NP
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Ansari
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Singh
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D053685:Laser Therapy; D008297:Male; D014518:Ureterocele / Q000601:surgery*; D018666:Ureteroscopy