Malignancy may produce ureteric obstruction. This obstruction may be relieved by inserting a nephrostomy tube. All 31 cases of malignant ureteric obstruction from a single institution were ...

which may require a stent to drain urine from the bladder or a nephrostomy tube to drain urine from the kidney It’s not known precisely what causes peritoneal cancer, though the process begins ...

Sometimes treatment starts with procedures to help urine drain from your body: Nephrostomy ... therapy when his prostate cancer spread. However, the radiation damaged his ureters (tubes that move ...

Diagnosis. Malacoplakia involving bilatateral ureters and bladder; cavitary pneumonia. Management. Hemodialysis, placement of bilateral percutaneous nephrostomy tubes, administration of ...

A urologist told me I needed a nephrostomy [a tube inserted into the ... informed the media veteran his cancer was about to break through the wall of his bladder, meaning he would have to have ...