Intraoperative real time ultrasonic scanning for locating and recovering renal calculi.
Intraoperative ultrasonic guidance is a useful method to locate and to remove small renal stones broken from a larger stone during extraction, stones and calices proximal to a narrowed infundibulum and parenchymal calculi that should be removed during other procedures on the kidney.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007432:Intraoperative Period; D007669:Kidney Calculi / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D011859:Radiography; D014463:Ultrasonography