N P Gupta1, M S Ansari, I Singh. 1. Department of Urology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. narmadagupta@hotmail.com
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.
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.