[Treatment of ureteral lithiasis with lithoclast: analysis of our experience].
OBJECTIVE
To analyze the role and the results achieved with the Lithoclast in the treatment of distal ureteral calculi in the era of ESWL.


METHODS
From March, 1994 to April, 1995, 41 patients with ureteral calculi were treated by ureteroscopy and direct stone fragmentation with the Lithoclast.


RESULTS
90% of the patients were stone-free one month after treatment; 3 patients in whom stone fragmentation could not be achieved required ESWL; one patient required open surgery for ureteral detachment.


CONCLUSIONS
Ureteroscopy and stone fragmentation with the Lithoclast is a good, inexpensive mode of treatment of ureteral stones and is particularly indicated as the first mode of treatment in those centers, like ours, where ESWL is unavailable.
Montserrat Orri
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Servicio de Urología, Hospital Josep Trueta, Girona, España.
Torrent Quer
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N
Ordis Dalmau
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M
Alvarez Alvarez
J L
JL
Raul Valiente Amarilla
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C
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008096:Lithotripsy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014514:Ureteral Calculi / Q000628:therapy*