[The treatment of pelvic ureteral calculi using the Dornier lithotripter. Apropos of 20 cases].
The authors report a series of twenty patients with pelvic ureteric stones treated by the Dornier lithotriptor. Sixteen men and 4 women were treated over a period of 8 months (November 1988 and June 1989). A single treatment session was sufficient to ensure destruction and elimination of the stones. This technique, which does not require anaesthesia, but at most simple neuroleptanalgesia, has a low morbidity (15%). In the series of 20 patients: the stones were completely eliminated in 16 cases, 1 case was a failure at 3 months and 3 patients were not reviewed. These results are assessed with a minimum follow-up of three months and a maximum follow-up of eight months. This simple, rapide, repeatable and effective therapeutic technique appears to constitute an alternative to operative endoscopy (flexible or rigid ureteroscopy) in the treatment of stones of the pelvic ureter.
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Service d'Urologie, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Paris.
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Tobelem
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Thomas
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Cressey
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002129:Calcium Oxalate / Q000032:analysis; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008096:Lithotripsy / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014514:Ureteral Calculi / Q000737:chemistry / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*
D002129:Calcium Oxalate
Le traitement des calculs urétéraux pelviens par le lithotripteur Dornier. A propos de vingt cas.