Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy for Urinary Stone Disease: Clinical Experience with the Electromagnetic Lithotriptor ‘Lithostar’
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in European Urology
- Vol. 16 (1) , 7-11
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000471519
Abstract
400 urinary stone patients were treated with the electromagnetic lithotriptor Siemens ‘Lithostar’: 66.3% had renal stones and 33.7% had ureteral stones. Ninety percent of the treatments were performed under intravenous sedation only: 14.5% of the patients had more than one session. After 3 months more than 80% of the patients with a single stone smaller than 1.5 cm and 46% of the patients with stones larger than 2.5 cm were ‘stone-free’.Keywords
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- Report of the United States Cooperative Study of Extracorporeal Shock Wave LithotripsyJournal of Urology, 1986