During procedure (cystoscopy with right stent insertion) after provider removed spiral tip catheter, he noticed that the spiral end of catheter was no longer intact.Provider concluded that tip of catheter still was in the patient's right ureter and could not be removed at time of procedure.Procedure was aborted.A stent wire was unable to be passed beyond the level of the stone, and a retrograde pyelogram did not demonstrate any contrast proximal to the level of the obstruction.During the procedure, the tip of a spiral-tipped catheter broke off in the right ureter and was unable to be retrieved.She subsequently went to interventional radiology for placement of a right nephrostomy tube.Specialty specific elements: distal right ureteral stone will require management/treatment.Retained foreign catheter tip in distal right ureter will require retrieval.
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