title: Bare naked baskets: optimizing ureteroscopic stone extraction.
abstract: Baskets placed through the working channels of flexible ureteroscopes limit mobility and irrigant flow. We describe a new technique to minimize these limitations. An unsheathed "bare naked" basket affords enhanced ureteroscopic efficacy by limiting obstruction of the working channel. We have used the technique clinically to treat stones in difficult locations successfully and to remove fragments of calculi after ureteroscopic lithotripsy.
authors.affiliation: Division of Urology (Surgery), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
authors.forename: Sam B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Bhayani
authors.forename: Manoj
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Monga
authors.forename: Jaime
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Landman
authors.forename: Ralph V
authors.initials: RV
authors.lastname: Clayman
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D007669:Kidney Calculi / Q000628:therapy; D008096:Lithotripsy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D020709:Ureteroscopes; D018666:Ureteroscopy / Q000379:methods*; D014545:Urinary Calculi / Q000628:therapy*