Bilateral Encrusted Metallic Stent Successfully Removed by Ureteroscopic Lithotripsy Using a Ho:YAG Laser in a Patient with Malignant Myeloma-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Bilateral Encrusted Metallic Stent Successfully Removed by Ureteroscopic Lithotripsy Using a Ho:YAG Laser in a Patient with Malignant Myeloma

Published:2020-12-17 Issue:3 Volume:13 Page:1501-1505
ISSN:1662-6575
Container-title:Case Reports in Oncology
language:en
Short-container-title:Case Rep Oncol

Author:

Hanai Takahiro,Kawahara Takashi^ORCID,Ishida Hiroaki,Kuroda Shinnosuke,Miyai Toshitaka,Yasui Masato,Aoki Shuntaro,Uemura Hiroji

Abstract

Ureteral stent encrustation is sometimes encountered, especially in cases in which a ureteral stent has been forgotten. An 84-year-old female patient with malignant myeloma underwent metallic ureteral stent insertion to treat malignant ureteral obstruction. At the time of scheduled ureteral stent exchange, the stent was heavily encrusted and could not be removed on either side. We performed endoscopic lithotripsy to remove the encrusted ureteral stents. The bilaterally encrusted metallic ureteral stents were successfully removed using Ho:YAG laser lithotripsy after inserting another ureteral stent placement besides the encrusted metallic ureteral stents.

Publisher

S. Karger AG

Subject

Oncology

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