title: Painless lithotripsy: experience with 100 patients.
abstract: 123 patients underwent 320 extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) sessions with the Wolf 'Piezolith 2200' lithotripter. The overall success rate, judged by adequate stone fragmentation into particles of 2 mm or less as seen on X-ray, was 92%. Few complications occurred. The lithotripter was easy to operate, and treatment was painless.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007669:Kidney Calculi / Q000628:therapy*; D008096:Lithotripsy / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology