By Archie Fernando As the friendliest taxi driver in the world dropped me off outside the vast BT centre in Liverpool he asked “if you’re all in there, what’s going to happen to the rest of us?” I wasn’t sure whether he was envisaging an epidemic of priapism, but I reckoned we’d be ok for […]
Ureteric stents are commonly placed after ureteroscopy to protect the ureter and to facilitate subsequent stone fragment passage. They are known to be a cause of significant morbidity as judged by standardised validated questionnaires [1]. Whether placement of a stent is required at all is debatable, with randomised studies suggesting they are unnecessary after routine […]