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Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy for urinary stone disease: clinical experience with the electromagnetic
J Simon1, A Corbusier, A Mendes Leal
1Department of Urology, University Clinics of Brussels, Erasme Hospital, Belgium.
European Urology
|January 1, 1989
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'.