title: Percutaneous nephrostomy. Aspects on clinical application.
abstract: During a 6-year-period percutaneous nephrostomy has been used for supravesical urinary diversion in 115 patients and 132 individual kidneys. The procedure proved to be a safe and effective alternative to operative nephrostomy in patients with urinary obstruction but may be used also in other urologic conditions.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004322:Drainage / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007682:Kidney Pelvis / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011677:Punctures / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*; D014546:Urinary Catheterization / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation; D014547:Urinary Diversion / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods; D014570:Urologic Diseases / Q000601:surgery; D014571:Urologic Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery