Indwelling Double-J Ureteral Stent Versus Externalized Modified-Salle Stent for Pyeloplasty

internal stent, we use to approaches to insert it: 1- Retrograde by cystoscopy and this will take 10 minutes before starting the surgical procedure itself and we put the stent under fluoroscopy guidance and this is the commonest way we use now to put the internal stents. 2- ante grade, and this is basically inserting the stent during the surgical procedure itself from the kidney down to the ureter and this is done without fluoroscopy

we use one method, we choose were we will leave the stent and then we create a small hole in the kidney and then pull the stent through the hole and then create small hole in the abdominal fascia and then the skin, all this done under direct vision and control. So now the sent is outside the patient and connected directly to the kidney and the renal pelvis, then the distal part of the stent will be inserted across the anastomosis and before closing the renal pelvis (also under vision) toward the ureter. The external stent will be connected at the end of the procedure to a urine bag.