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Solve Tricky Stone Removal Case

Published on Tue Aug 10, 2021

Question: The urologist removed a left ureteral stone with semi-rigid ureteroscopy. He also removed a second left stone, which was a renal stone, with a flexible pyeloscopy. He performed both removals with basket retrieval with a cystoscopy placement of a ureteral stent. Can I report both stones since two different scopes were used? This patient already had recently underwent extracorporeal [...]
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