[Urinary calculi in an intestinal loop used for ureteral substitution. A case report]

Minerva Ginecol. 1993 Sep;45(9):439-42.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

The authors report the case of large urinary calculi formed inside the ileal conduit diversion in a patient who underwent radical surgery for an ovarian carcinoma involving the right ureter. Two ureter stents were left to ensure drainage and were endoscopically removed after six months. Renal function and ureteral canalization were normal. However, because of a knot in the proximal end of stents, a piece 5 cm-long-was left inside the diversion. After six months the patient developed recurrent renal colics: plain abdomen X-ray and urography showed a large urinary stone around the stents fragment and several smaller stones nearby. They all were removed surgically. The pathogenesis of such complications was considered: even though the slow flux of urine in the diversion, the abnormal mucus production from the ileal mucosa and the excessive and chronic bicarbonate loss played an important role in the developing of urinary calculi, the authors believe that in this case the main responsible for the stone formation was the foreign body in the urinary diversion.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Carcinoma / complications
  • Carcinoma / surgery
  • Colic / diagnostic imaging
  • Colic / etiology
  • Colic / surgery
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Ileum / surgery
  • Kidney Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Kidney Diseases / etiology
  • Kidney Diseases / surgery
  • Ovarian Neoplasms / complications
  • Ovarian Neoplasms / surgery
  • Postoperative Complications / diagnostic imaging
  • Postoperative Complications / etiology*
  • Postoperative Complications / surgery
  • Radiography
  • Stents
  • Time Factors
  • Ureteral Obstruction / complications
  • Ureteral Obstruction / etiology
  • Ureteral Obstruction / surgery
  • Urinary Calculi / diagnostic imaging
  • Urinary Calculi / etiology*
  • Urinary Calculi / surgery
  • Urinary Diversion*