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LithoVue out of the package reliable 270  deflectability at the start of each case.
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This case used the newly FDA-approved LithoVue flexible disposable ureteroscope (Fig. 1).
Scout photo, on left, and retrograde ureteropyelogram, on right, revealing renal calculi in lower pole of left kidney (white arrow) located at the infundibular pelvic angle requiring roughly a 180  ureteroscope approach.
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A retrograde ureteropyelogram was obtained (Fig. 2).
LithoVue with deflection into the lower pole of the left kidney.
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The two stones were then observed in the lower pole calix that were covered in a "mossy fibrinous-like material consistent with struvite stones." A 200 mum Ho:YAG fiber at the time was not available; therefore, a 365 mum fiber was inserted into the ureteroscope and advanced toward the stones (Fig. 3).