OBJECTIVE: To describe clinical presentation, etiology, and treatment of ureteral injuries recognized late in women who had gynecologic laparoscopies. METHODS: We reviewed the charts of 12 women who had delayed recognition of ureteral injuries between January 1991 and December 1998. RESULTS: Patients presented with fever, hematuria, flank pain, or peritonitis between 3 and 33 days postoperatively. The mechanism of ureteral injuries was electrocoagulation in seven women, laser ablation in one, and stapler ligation in four. The sites of injury were near the inferior margin of the sacroiliac joint on excretory urogram in eight women and near the ureterovesical junction in four. Three women initially treated with internal ureteral stents were subsequently treated with ureteroneocystostomy because of progression of urinary ascites in two and a delayed ureteral stricture in one. In nine patients, attempts at ureteral stenting were unsuccessful and immediate ureteral reconstruction was done. Outcomes were good in all cases. CONCLUSION: Delayed recognition of ureteral injury after gynecologic laparoscopy was associated with serious complications, and initial treatment with ureteral stenting was not useful. We advocate early open repair for those injuries.
OBJECTIVE: To describe clinical presentation, etiology, and treatment of ureteral injuries recognized late in women who had gynecologic laparoscopies. METHODS: We reviewed the charts of 12 women who had delayed recognition of ureteral injuries between January 1991 and December 1998. RESULTS:Patients presented with fever, hematuria, flank pain, or peritonitis between 3 and 33 days postoperatively. The mechanism of ureteral injuries was electrocoagulation in seven women, laser ablation in one, and stapler ligation in four. The sites of injury were near the inferior margin of the sacroiliac joint on excretory urogram in eight women and near the ureterovesical junction in four. Three women initially treated with internal ureteral stents were subsequently treated with ureteroneocystostomy because of progression of urinary ascites in two and a delayed ureteral stricture in one. In nine patients, attempts at ureteral stenting were unsuccessful and immediate ureteral reconstruction was done. Outcomes were good in all cases. CONCLUSION: Delayed recognition of ureteral injury after gynecologic laparoscopy was associated with serious complications, and initial treatment with ureteral stenting was not useful. We advocate early open repair for those injuries.
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