BACKGROUND Long-term outcomes of kidney transplantation recipients with percutaneous ureteral management of transplant ureteral complications are not well characterized. METHODS Electronic records of 1753 recipients of kidney-alone transplant between January 2000 and December 2008 were reviewed. One hundred thirty-one patients were identified to have undergone percutaneous ureteral management...

PURPOSE To describe our experience in the diagnosis and treatment of 23 patients with ureteral endometriosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS We performed a retrospective analysis of 23 cases of ureteral endometriosis with histopathological results from 2002 to 2011. RESULTS In patients with ureteral endometriosis, 23 cases were diagnosed by ultrasound, 21 by intravenous urography, 11 by retrograde u...

BACKGROUND Ureteral stenting has been a fundamental part of various urological procedures. Selecting a ureteral stent of optimal length is important for decreasing the incidence of stent migration and complications. The aim of the present study was to develop and internally validate a model for predicting the ureteral length for ureteral stent insertion. METHODS This study included a total of...

For midureteral and distal-ureteral tumors not amenable to endoscopic resection, distal ureterectomy with ureteral reimplantation is a treatment option. When ureteral length is insufficient for direct reimplantation, additional length can be gained with either a psoas hitch or a Boari flap. We describe our technique for robot-assisted laparoscopic distal ureterectomy and ureteral reimplantation...

Ureteral access is necessary in many endourological procedures including ureteroscopy and ureteral stenting. Technologies such as ureteral access sheaths, balloon dilators, and coaxial dilators may be helpful in facilitating ureteral access in difficult cases. This chapter describes a stenting technique that relies on fluoroscopic guidance once the initial guidewire is placed and the cystoscope...

A patient with bilateral, simultaneous ureteral tumors is described. A brief comment on therapeutic techniques utilized in previous cases is presented. Ureteral tumors are not a common occurrence in clinical practice. Simultaneous bilateral ureteral tumors are very unusual and raise interesting therapeutic dilemmas. We describe a patient with simultaneous, bilateral ureteral tumors.

AIM Ureteral injury is among the most devastating complications of gynecologic surgery. Estimated incidence of ureteral injury during laparoscopic hysterectomy is 2.6-35 times (0.2-6.0%) that in abdominal hysterectomy. We investigated preoperative ureteral catheter (UC) placement as a way to prevent ureteral injury in laparoscopic hysterectomy. METHODS Clinical records of 94 women who underwe...