ENTRAPPED STONE BASKET MANAGED BY EXTRACORPOREAL SHOCK-WAVE LITHOTRIPSY

Authors
CASS AS HELLER JE
Citation
As. Cass et Je. Heller, ENTRAPPED STONE BASKET MANAGED BY EXTRACORPOREAL SHOCK-WAVE LITHOTRIPSY, Urology, 43(4), 1994, pp. 544-545
Citations number
3
Categorie Soggetti
Urology & Nephrology
Journal title
Urology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00904295
Volume
43
Issue
4
Year of publication
1994
Pages
544 - 545
Database
ISI
SICI code
0090-4295(1994)43:4<544:ESBMBE>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
When pull on a stone basket enclosing a distal ureteral stone met mark ed resistance and endoscopic lithotripsy failed, extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy was used to fragment the entrapped stone in the urete r and allowed successful removal of the basket with the enclosed fragm ents.