During the last decades, the surgical management of kidney stones benefited of many
technological advances and one of them is the development of flexible ureteroscopy (fURS) …

Context Retrograde intrarenal surgery has gained substantial popularity worldwide thanks to
continuous improvements in technology and techniques, and is now considered one of the …

Objective: LithoVue™ is a novel, single-use, digital flexible ureteroscope that was released
to the US market in January 2016. There are scant data regarding its performance in …

Introduction: Reusable ureteroscope durability and need for repair are significant sources of
expense and inefficiency for patients and urologists. Utilization of LithoVue™, a disposable …

The purpose of this study is to analyze clinical outcomes and costs of single-use flexible
ureterorenoscopes in comparison with reusable flexible ureterorenoscopes in a tertiary …

Objectives To compare the performance and surgical outcomes of two different single‐use
digital flexible ureteroscopes with a reusable video flexible ureteroscope. Methods Patients …

Abstract Purpose of Review This review discusses factors affecting outcomes during
ureteroscopy (URS) with laser lithotripsy (LL), explores specific clinical challenges to the …

Flexible ureteroscopy has become an important tool in the urologist's armamentarium. Until
recently, reusable ureteroscopes were the only tools available to perform ureteroscopy …

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 …

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 …