RIRS

Retrograde intra-renal surgery

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• Is endoscopic surgery of the upper urinary tract. For diagnosis or treatment of kidney stones, tumours or obstruction.

• With improvements in scope size, flexibility and digital imaging this has rapidly become the most common method of managing kidney stones.

• An endoscope is passed through the ureter to the collecting system of the kidney.

• Stones can be destroyed with a laser or pneumatic probe. Fragments can be removed with endoscopic baskets.