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Steinstrasse is a term used to describe a ureter that is choked with stone debris. This term is derived from the German words stein (stone) and Strasse (street), appropriate as the ureter appears like a cobbled street on an X-ray.
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Talati, J. (1997). Prevention of steinstrasse . In: Talati, J., Sutton, R.A.L., Moazam, F., Ahmed, M. (eds) The Management of Lithiasis. Developments in Nephrology, vol 38. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5396-6_29
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