After leaving your kidney, the stone travels through a tube called the ureter on the way to your bladder. There are several narrow areas in your ureter where stones can get stuck — the narrowest spot ...

Mr Anson told me I had a minute kidney stone stuck in my ureter - the tube that takes water from the kidney to the bladder. The pain was caused by the movement of the stone through the tube.

is too large to pass, becomes stuck in your ureter, or does not pass for another reason, causes too much pain, affects your kidney function, or leads to infection. The type of surgery that we perform ...

A ureteral stent is a flexible plastic tube for insertion into the ureter to treat or prevent blockages that impede urine flow from the kidney to the bladder, such as kidney stones. Once the ...

If left untreated, ureteral stones can lead to serious complications, such as kidney infections, bleeding during stone passage or treatment, and acute kidney injury or failure.