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[Extracorporeal ultrasonic lithotripsy of biliary calculi].
- Source :
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Khirurgiia [Khirurgiia (Mosk)] 1991 Oct (10), pp. 16-21. - Publication Year :
- 1991
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Abstract
- The article analyses the efficacy of extracorporeal lithotripsy by a LT-01 piezoelectric lithotriptor (EDAP, France). A total of 72 lithotripsy sessions were performed on 37 patients, in 2 of them who suffered from chronic calculous cholecystitis the procedure was conducted on the day before the operation. As a method for treatment, extracorporeal lithotripsy was applied in 35 patients for the following indications: solitary and multiple stones measuring in sum no more than 3 cm in the satisfactory functioning of the gallbladder and patency of the bile ducts. In 35 patients the stones were crushed to fragments of various size. In 29 patients extracorporeal lithotripsy produced a marked effect and was the final method of treatment. Six patients were operated on (cholecystectomy) due to exacerbation of chronic cholecystitis in 4 patients, pancreatitis in one patient; total destruction of calcinated large stone fragments could not be achieved after 6 sessions in one patient.
Details
- Language :
- Russian
- ISSN :
- 0023-1207
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Khirurgiia
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 1803086