Major achievements and technological innovations from recent decades have shaped what
has become modern ureteroscopy: a versatile, efficient, and safe operation technique for …

Flexible ureteroscopy: reuse? Or is single use the new direc... : Current Opinion in Urology
Flexible ureteroscopy: reuse? Or is single use the new direction? : Current Opinion in …

Objective: To evaluate using an inanimate model the thermal injury and laser efficiency on
high frequency, high energy, and its combination in hands of junior and experienced …

Purpose Illumination characteristics of flexible ureteroscopes have been evaluated in air, but
not in saline, the native operative medium for endourology. The aim was to evaluate light …

Background Single-use flexible ureterorenoscopes (fURSs) have been recently introduced
aiming to offer solutions to the sterilization, fragility and cost issues of the reusable fURSs. In …

Victoria Jahrreiss, Carlotta Nedbal, Daniele Castellani, Vineet Gauhar, Christian Seitz,
Guohua Zeng, Patrick Juliebø-Jones, Etienne Keller, Lazaros Tzelves, Rob Geraghty, Karan …

Introduction: Appropriate risk stratification and complete tumor ablation are the key factors to
optimize the oncologic outcomes of patients undertaking endoscopic management for upper …

Purpose The aim of the study was to evaluate illumination properties in an in-vitro kidney
calyx model in saline. Design and methods We evaluated a series of contemporary flexible …

Clinical data suggest an equipoise between single-use (disposable) and reusable flexible
ureterorenoscope (fURS) in terms of scope characteristics, manipulation, view and clinical …

Purpose Artifacts from poor ureteroscopes' light design with shadowing and dark areas in
the field of view have been reported. The aim was to quantify effects of light obstruction in a …