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The aim of this study was to assess feasibility of fluoroless URS under a local anesthetic (LA) gel.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Patients and Methods:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A prospective cohort study was performed at a Canadian tertiary care center. All patients booked for a diagnostic URS were included in this study. All patients were given intraurethral local lidocaine gel and instructed to signal if discomfort was encountered. Data collected include age, gender, indications of URS, history of URS, ureteral stenting, comorbidity index, and the use of a guidewire, as well as pain using a visual analog scale.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      A total of 61 URSs using LA were performed on 38 patients. The majority of patients were men (68.9%). Indications for URS were to rule out upper tract urothelial cancer (47.5%), stricture (32.8%), or urolithiasis (19.7%). The average pain score, as rated by the visual analog scale, was 2.05 (standard deviation = 2.037). Only one patient did not want to continue his URS under LA. Guidewire use was associated with an average increase of 1.87 in pain score when compared with freehand URS (\u03b2 = 1.869, standard error [SE] = 0.610, t = 3.063,\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">p<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.004, r\n                      <jats:sub>partial<\/jats:sub>\n                      = 0.398). Male patients reported a 1.38 decrease in pain scores compared with female patients (\u03b2 = \u22121.380, SE = 0.615, t = \u22122.244,\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">p<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.029, r\n                      <jats:sub>partial<\/jats:sub>\n                      = \u22120.302).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>LA URS was well tolerated in our patient population. 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