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. 2001;33(2):325-8.
doi: 10.1023/a:1015266123275.

Laser endoscopic incision: a viable alternative to treat adult ureterocele

N P Gupta  1 , M S Ansari, I Singh
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Laser endoscopic incision: a viable alternative to treat adult ureterocele

N P Gupta et al. Int Urol Nephrol. 2001.

Abstract

Aim: To prospectively evaluate the safety. efficacy, feasibility and outcome of Nd-Yag laser endoscopic incision in adult symptomatic patients with intravesical uretroceles.

Methods: We present our experience with the use of Nd-Yag laser for endoscopic incision of the adult ureterocele in a group of five symptomatic adult patients.

Results: All the five patients showed excellent decompression with relief from flank pain and hydronephrosis and none demonstrated a post-op vesicoureteric reflux (VUR).

Conclusion: Laser endoscopic management of intravesical ureteroceles is new emerging modality, which is being increasingly employed to decompress ureteroceles. Laser endoscopic incision is a precise and bloodless procedure enabling a clean accurate controlled cut through the endoscope as opposed to the traditional bugbee electrode.

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