Metal fatigue causing cystoscope rupture during bladder neck incision |
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Authors: | Fernandez Alfonso Pautler Stephen E |
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Affiliation: | Division of Urology, Department of Surgery and Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. |
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Abstract: | The modern cystoscope is the result of the advancement in technology in numerous areas and is an invaluable tool that allows the urologist to perform a number of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Although various degrees of endoscope failure have been widely reported, instrument breakage that leads to a foreign body has not. While performing a bladder neck stricture incision for a 72-year-old male patient with a previous radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer and a resulting bladder neck stricture, we documented a major 17-French cystoscope malfunction and a resulting foreign body that was retrieved from the bladder using a 22-French scope and alligator forceps. |
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Keywords: | Cystoscope Bladder neck stricture Metal fatigue |
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