INTRODUCTION The aim of this study is to demonstrate the results of a case series concerning the replacement of long ureteric strictures using buccal mucosa grafts. MATERIAL AND METHODS Five patients (3 men, 2 women), with a mean age of 35 years old, underwent reconstructive ureteral surgery using buccal mucosa graft with omental wrapping during the period of 2010-2013. In all cases, the loca...

Objective: To evaluate success rate, auxiliary procedures and complications associated with ureteroscopic pneumatic lithotripsy of ureteric stones. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted among 100 patients between May 2011 and July 2013. The mean age of the patients was 32 ± 3 years. Ureteroscopic pneumatic lithotripsy was performed using rigid Wolf ureteroscope and Swiss Lithoclast dev...

Renal function was examined in 25 patients aged 40-64 with homozygous sickle-cell (SS) disease. Investigations included intravenous urography and measurement of blood urea and creatinine concentrations and creatinine and protein excretion in 24-hour collections of urine. Serum creatinine concentrations did not differ significantly from those of 25 other patients with SS disease aged 18-39 years...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to demonstrate a novel laparoscopic technique of tapering megaureter without disrupting the blood supply and disconnecting the ureter. MATERIALS AND METHODS Eight cases of primary obstructive megaureter in the age group of 14-22 years underwent laparoscopic extravesical ureteric reimplantation between August 2011 and July 2015 using our novel technique. Five patients...

INTRODUCTION The authors present an overview of polytrauma patients with urinary tract injuries managed in the Level I trauma centre. purpose this study was to evaluate frequency system, mechanism their injury and method treatment cohort treated MATERIAL AND METHODS Between 2012 2016, a total 231 were treated, whom 47 (20.3%) also suffered urotrauma. renal trauma, ureteral bladder urethral clas...

OBJECTIVES To determine the clinical significance of routine postoperative voiding cystourethrography (VCUG) and renal functional studies in the postoperative management of children after a transtrigonal ureteric reimplantation. METHODS A retrospective record review of 126 consecutive patients undergoing transtrigonal ureteric reimplantation. Inclusion criteria included primary reflux and >5 ...

Ureterosciatic herniation, the protrusion of the hernia sac through the sciatic foramen, is an extremely rare cause of ureteral obstruction. We describe a case revealed by severe left back pain in a 72-year-old female. She was referred to our hospital for urological assessment of left hydronephrosis observed by ultrasonography. Intravenous ureterography (IVU) showed findings compatible with a l...