Bare naked baskets: optimizing ureteroscopic stone extraction.
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.
Bhayani
Sam B
SB
Division of Urology (Surgery), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Monga
Manoj
M
Landman
Jaime
J
Clayman
Ralph V
RV
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*