Complications Following Ureteroscopy

Biester, Robert
Gillenwater, Jay Y.

From the Department of Urology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia

Accepted April 11, 1986.

Journal of Urology 136(2):p 380-382, August 1986. | DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(17)44874-9

ABSTRACT

We report 4 cases of ureteral injury and stricture formation following ureteroscopic stone manipulation. Possible etiologies of stricture formation and our methods of managing them are discussed. The complications of ureteroscopy have been reported only rarely and the ureteroscopist should be aware that the procedure is not always benign.