“…1 The advantages of such stenting are that it prevents leakage of urine from the anastomotic site, maintains the patency of the anastomosis, and allows for early discharge of patients after surgery. 3,4 A limitation of the use of totally internal stents is that their removal usually requires a second procedure, cystoscopy. 5 However, the availability of new-generation dou- ble J stents (eg, ÔÔblue stent,ÕÕ Angiomed Urosoft pyeloplasty stent; Bard Ltd, Crawley, UK), which are removable without cystoscopy, has to some extent rendered this debate obsolete.…”