title: Crossing ureteric strictures: microcatheters to the rescue when conventional methods fail.
abstract: Tight distal ureteric strictures can be most challenging to traverse both from above, by interventional radiologists, and below, by urologists. Despite the advent of numerous guidewires, manufactured from different materials, often ureteric strictures are too tight to allow conventional guidewires to pass through. We describe an alternative approach to cross tight ureteric strictures, using a microguidewire and microcatheter combination.
authors.affiliation: Radiology Department, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, Ireland.
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Keeling
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D002404:Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation*; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic; D003558:Cystoscopy; D020878:Device Removal; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007049:Iatrogenic Disease; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009403:Nephrostomy, Percutaneous; D015641:Radiography, Interventional; D015607:Stents; D014517:Ureteral Obstruction / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D018666:Ureteroscopy; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D014546:Urinary Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation*