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Percutaneous caliceal irrigation during extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy for lower pole renal calculi
1Department of Urology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois.
The Journal of Urology
|December 1, 1994
Abstract:
A percutaneous nephrostomy tube coiled in the lower pole calix was used to irrigate stone fragments during extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy in a small series of patients. This procedure is suggested as a possible means of improving lithotripsy results for larger, lower pole stones.