Successful Treatment of Stent Knot in the Proximal Ureter Using Ureteroscopy and Holmium Laser

Knotted ureteral stent is rare yet tedious complication that might represent a treatment challenge to the endourologist. Only twelve cases of knotted stent have been reported. Different management options have been reported, including simple traction, ureteroscopy, percutaneous removal, and open sur...

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Autores principales: Richards, Masters M., Khalil, Daniel, Mahdy, Ayman
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3099215/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21629808
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/502191
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description Knotted ureteral stent is rare yet tedious complication that might represent a treatment challenge to the endourologist. Only twelve cases of knotted stent have been reported. Different management options have been reported, including simple traction, ureteroscopy, percutaneous removal, and open surgery. In this paper, we present the successful untying of the knot using ureteroscopy with holmium laser.
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spelling pubmed-30992152011-05-31 Successful Treatment of Stent Knot in the Proximal Ureter Using Ureteroscopy and Holmium Laser Richards, Masters M. Khalil, Daniel Mahdy, Ayman Case Rep Med Case Report Knotted ureteral stent is rare yet tedious complication that might represent a treatment challenge to the endourologist. Only twelve cases of knotted stent have been reported. Different management options have been reported, including simple traction, ureteroscopy, percutaneous removal, and open surgery. In this paper, we present the successful untying of the knot using ureteroscopy with holmium laser. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-05-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3099215/ /pubmed/21629808 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/502191 Text en Copyright © 2011 Masters M. Richards et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Successful Treatment of Stent Knot in the Proximal Ureter Using Ureteroscopy and Holmium Laser
title Successful Treatment of Stent Knot in the Proximal Ureter Using Ureteroscopy and Holmium Laser
title_full Successful Treatment of Stent Knot in the Proximal Ureter Using Ureteroscopy and Holmium Laser
title_fullStr Successful Treatment of Stent Knot in the Proximal Ureter Using Ureteroscopy and Holmium Laser
title_full_unstemmed Successful Treatment of Stent Knot in the Proximal Ureter Using Ureteroscopy and Holmium Laser
title_short Successful Treatment of Stent Knot in the Proximal Ureter Using Ureteroscopy and Holmium Laser
title_sort successful treatment of stent knot in the proximal ureter using ureteroscopy and holmium laser
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3099215/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21629808
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/502191
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