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Endoscopic treatment of a long fibroepithelial ureteral polyp
Author(s) -
Yagi Shizuo,
Kawano Yukihiro,
Gotanda Takenari,
Kitagawa Toshihiro,
Kawahara Motoshi,
Nakagawa Masayuki,
Higashi Youitirou
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
international journal of urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.172
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1442-2042
pISSN - 0919-8172
DOI - 10.1046/j.1442-2042.2001.00343.x
Subject(s) - medicine , fibroepithelial polyp , ureter , asymptomatic , ureteral neoplasm , ureteroscopy , surgery , radiology , transitional cell carcinoma , cancer , bladder cancer
A case is reported of a 30‐year‐old woman with a long fibroepithelial polyp in the middle ureter treated with the Ho‐YAG laser endoscopically. She presented with an intermittent macroscopic hematuria and lower abdominal pain lasting for 1 year. The filling defect on urography occupying one‐third of the ureter was migratory depending on the patient position. Transurethral flexible ureterorenoscopy showed a large pedunculated tumor with a small base at the middle ureter. About 1 month after the endoscopic irradiation of the Ho‐YAG laser to the base of tumor, the tumor was spontaneously discharged and pathologic examination revealed it to be a fibroepithelial polyp without malignant component. Postoperatively, the patient remained asymptomatic and follow‐up excretory urographs showed no abnormal findings.