Operative Note: Cystoscopy to remove small stones from the patient’s upper right ureter and another stone lodged in the middle left ureter. Both stones were manipulated back into the kidney with subsequent placement of double J ureteral stents in each ureter.

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Index:
Cystourethroscopy, Manipulation of Ureteral Calculus
Cystourethroscopy, Insertion, Indwelling Ureteral Stent
(Note that Gibbons or double J are types of indwelling stents.)

Code(s):
52330-50 Cystourethroscopy (including ureteral catheterization); with manipulation, without removal of ureteral calculus
52332-50 Cystourethroscopy, with insertion of indwelling ureteral stent