ureterorenoscopy

Ureter and renal pelvis are mirrored.
The Ureterorenoscopy is an endoscopic inspection of the ureter and renal pelvis. In addition to diagnostic purposes it is used mainly as a therapy. The reflection of the ureter and renal pelvis (uretero-reno-spectroscopy) is used only after exhausting other methods of available research.


The investigation is carried out under anesthetic.
Here, the endoscope through the urethra, past the bladder into the ureters and is further inserted into the renal pelvis. Since such a procedure is painful, it is either performed under general anesthesia or spinal anesthesia. Complications are rare in the Ureterorenoscopy.


Frequently co-therapy is performed.
Indications are inter alia the suspicion of a tumor so that a biopsy can also be removed or the investigation of unilateral hematuria. Therapeutic benefits of such a mirror are more varied. Often be removed in this way, large stones from the renal pelvis and ureters when other methods have failed. Even the placement of a ureteral catheter, which can facilitate the stone passage into the bladder one Ureterorenoscopy be necessary, eg in pregnant women, in which a shock wave therapy is contraindicated because of the child.