title: [Extracorporeal ultrasonic lithotripsy of biliary calculi].
abstract: The article analyses the efficacy of extracorporeal lithotripsy by a LT-01 piezoelectric lithotriptor (EDAP, France). A total of 72 lithotripsy sessions were performed on 37 patients, in 2 of them who suffered from chronic calculous cholecystitis the procedure was conducted on the day before the operation. As a method for treatment, extracorporeal lithotripsy was applied in 35 patients for the following indications: solitary and multiple stones measuring in sum no more than 3 cm in the satisfactory functioning of the gallbladder and patency of the bile ducts. In 35 patients the stones were crushed to fragments of various size. In 29 patients extracorporeal lithotripsy produced a marked effect and was the final method of treatment. Six patients were operated on (cholecystectomy) due to exacerbation of chronic cholecystitis in 4 patients, pancreatitis in one patient; total destruction of calcinated large stone fragments could not be achieved after 6 sessions in one patient.
authors.forename: V D
authors.initials: VD
authors.lastname: Fedorov
authors.forename: V P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Strekalovskiĭ
authors.forename: V S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Pomelov
authors.forename: A I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Kuz'min
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Kotovskiĭ
authors.forename: N P
authors.initials: NP
authors.lastname: Gorbunova
authors.forename: E S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Lemiagova
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Gorev
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000628:therapy*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D042882:Gallstones / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008096:Lithotripsy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010316:Particle Size; D014464:Ultrasonic Therapy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*
vernacular_title: Ekstrakorporal'naia ul'trazvukovaia litotripsiia zhelchnykh kamneĭ.