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Endoureteropyelotomy in adults. Review of procedure and results
L M Perez1, R M Friedman, C C Carson
1Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
Urology
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
We report on 17 adult patients who underwent antegrade endoureteropyelotomy for primary (7) and secondary (10) ureteropelvic junction obstruction. Complications were limited to failure to relieve the obstruction, which occurred in 2 patients (12%) requiring a subsequent open pyeloplasty. The two failures were due to high insertion of the ureter in one, and lower renal pole vessel in the other case. A new endoureteropyelotomy stent was developed to enhance healing and patient comfort. No failures occurred due to technical difficulties.