[Treatment of precalyceal stones of Cacchi-Ricci disease by flexible ureterorenoscopy and Holmium-YAG laser].
Flexible ureterorenoscopy combined with Holmium-YAG laser is an effective and reliable technique for the management of renal stones. Cacchi-Ricci disease is a frequent urological malformation characterized by precalyceal stone formation, for which no preventive treatment is available at the present time. Some complicated forms are difficult to manage because of the technical impossibility of treating these precalyceal stones. The objective of this article is to describe a technique allowing management of these precalyceal stones by flexible ureterorenoscopy combined with Holmium-YAG laser.
Breton
Xavier
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Service d'Urologie et de Transplantation rénale, Hôpital Salvator Marseille, France. xavier.breton@mail.ap-hm.fr
Saidi
Abdelkader
A
Delaporte
Véronique
V
Coulange
Christian
C
Lechevallier
Eric
E
D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006801:Humans; D007669:Kidney Calculi / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D007670:Kidney Calices; D053685:Laser Therapy; D018666:Ureteroscopy / Q000379:methods*