Takafumi Yanagisawa, Keiichiro Mori, Fahad Quhal, Tatsushi Kawada, Hadi Mostafaei, Ekaterina Laukhtina, Pawel Rajwa, Reza Sari Motlagh, Abdulmajeed Aydh, Frederik König, Maximilian Pallauf, Benjamin Pradere, Jun Miki, Takahiro Kimura, Shin Egawa, Shahrokh F Shariat
OBJECTIVE: To assess the incidence of ureteric injuries, clinical value of prophylactic ureteric stenting and impact of intra- or postoperative detection of ureteric injuries in patients treated with gynaecological or colorectal surgery. METHODS: Multiple databases were searched for articles published before September 2021 according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses statement. Studies were deemed eligible if they evaluated the differences in the rate of ureteric injuries between laparoscopic and open surgery, prophylactic ureteric stenting or not, and those of final treatment success between intra- and postoperative detection in patients who underwent gynaecological or colorectal surgery...
May 2023: BJU International