[Assisted extraction using extracorporeal lithotripsy of the calcified ureteral catheter overlooked for 2 years].
A 45 year old man with a 2 year forgotten left double-pigtail ureteric stent was referred to our hospital. Because of distal calcifications, the stent could not be removed by means of a cystoscopy. So, extracorporeal wave lithotripsies were performed and then the stent were easily removed in two fragments by cystoscopy and ureteroscopy.
Millán Rodríguez
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F
Servicio de Urología, Fundación Puigvert, Barcelona.
Rousaud Barón
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F
Martí Malet
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J
Izquierdo Latorre
F
F
Rousaud Barón
A
A
D002114:Calcinosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003558:Cystoscopy; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007669:Kidney Calculi / Q000150:complications; D008096:Lithotripsy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D015607:Stents; D014517:Ureteral Obstruction / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D018666:Ureteroscopy; D014546:Urinary Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation*