INTRODUCTION Ureteral stent placement is a common procedure in daily urologic practice. To manage the problems of forgotten stents for many years needs multimodal stone therapy. CASE PRESENTATION We present a case of a 26-years-old Caucasian, white woman with two forgotten encrusted ureteral stents for 48 months. Multimodal stone therapy including extracorporeal shock wave (SWL), percutaneous...

OBJECTIVE The commonest indications for ureteral stent placement are: obstructive nephrolithiasis, renoureteral surgery, urologic oncology, endourology and extrinsic ureteral compression. METHODS We report the case of a 77-year-old male patient with a DJ ureteral catheter placed for an 8-month period and history of nephrolithiasis; the stent showed a 60 mm x 30 mm calcification on its distal ...

BACKGROUND As surgeons working in a developing country, we decided to review our experience with polyurethane stents instead of the more expensive ones on common urological procedures and analyzing our experience with respect to their usefulness versus their problems and outcome. METHODS This stusy was carried out at Armed Forces Institute of Urology, Rawalpindi and Combined Military Hospital...

The widespread use of medical devices has caused a great advance in the management of many diseases. Indwelling medical devices are being increasingly used for the treatment of functional deficits in numerous medical fields. Urinary tract infections (UTIs) represent the most commonly acquired bacterial infection. The risk of developing a urinary tract infection increases significantly with the ...

Routine placement of transurethral catheters can be challenging in some situations, such as urethral strictures, severe phimosis and false passages. Intravaginal retraction of the urethral meatus can complicate Foley placement in postmenopausal females. In men, blind urethral procedures with mechanical or metal sounds without visual guidance or guidewire assistance are now discouraged due to th...

The Resonance(®) metallic ureteral stent is one of the latest additions to the urologist's armamentarium in managing ureteral obstruction. One advantage of this stent over traditional polymer-based stents is resistance to encrustation with stone material, which allows longer dwell times and less frequent exchange procedures. Although exchanging a metallic stent is slightly more complicated than...

INTRODUCTION Rhinolith, as the name indicates, is lithiasis or stone formation in the nose. The first well documented case of rhinolithiasis was reported by Barthdinin in 1654 [1]. Rhinoliths are completely or partially encrusted mineralized nasal masseseither exogenous or endogenous, depending on the origin of the nucleus on which the encrustation occurs. Dessicated blood clots, ectopic teeth ...

Forgotten ureteral stents (FUS) with encrustation can cause problems during treatment. Most FUS encrustations are small and are treated easily. however, if large, multiple, or long stones have formed, treatment is challenging to the surgeon. We congratulate Rabani, who reported successful treatment of a giant (> 35 mm stone formation) encrustation (1). As it is clearly known, patients with FUS ...