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Plain roentgenogram revealing stones in the right kidney (A) and intravenous urogram with suspicion of right UPJO (B).
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On intravenous urography, there were 17 stones inside a dilated right pelvicalyxeal system, the largest being seven milimeters in diameter, and a suspicion of right UPJO (Figure 1).
Diuretic renogram studies of the right kidney. Diuretic renograms of the right kidney which were obtained before (dotted line) and 4 months after (straight line) the operation are superimposed in the same graphic for better comparison. Perpendicular dotted line indicates the time of diuretic injection.
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Diuretic renogram revealed delayed elimination of the tracer from right kidney (Figure 2).
Retrograde ureteropyelography at the beginning of the operation (A) and plain roentgenogram on the 3rd postoperative day (B).
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The catheter could not be passed into the renal pelvis, but the radioopaque could, through a narrow opening (Figure 3A). A 7-14 Fr, 26 cm double pigtail endopyelotomy stent and a re-entry nephrostomy tube were placed to the ureter and nephrostomy tract, respectively (Figure 3B).