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Zebra guidewire damage by Holmium: YAG laser and management of removal.

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: The zebra guidewire is widely used in endoscopic surgery. Because of its central mental core, it is not easy to break or shear off within the urinary tract. We report a case about the breakage of zebra guidewire in ureteroscopy (URS) with Holmium: YAG laser lithotripsy. It is easily to be managed by percutaneous access or open surgery. For the purpose of minimal invasiveness and risk, we performed a retrograde flexible ureteroscopy and extracted it successfully without any complication. To our knowledge, this is the first case report on flexible ureteroscopy to remove the residual tip of damaged guidewire in renal.

Source: Europe PMC (PubMed Central)

Authors: Zhichao Huang, Fajun Fu, Zhaohui Zhong, Ran Xu, Lei Zhang, Guangcheng Deng, Xiaokun Zhao

Institutions: Central South University, Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha Central Hospital, Fourth Hospital of Changsha

Language: English

Topic: Kidney Stones and Urolithiasis Treatments

Subfield: Urology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2394836642

FWCI: 0.618

Cites: 8

Cited by: 6

Related to: 10