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I'm looking for guidance on this case where the physician placed a stent but it was suboptimal, so the stent was removed via snare. "Then over a guide wire, a 8.5 French ureteral stent was advanced and distal loop placed in the urinary bladder. However the proximal was shortly deployed in the proximal aspect of the ureter possibly secondary to the tortuosity at this level in the ureter. The stent was pulled back in the ureter toward the urinary bladder. Using multiple maneuver and after a long period, we were able to retrieve the ureteral stent by advancing the snare into the urinary bladder and pulling out the stent in the retrograde fashion."