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The value of percutaneous nephrostomy; Sri Lankan experience
1National Hospital of Sri Lanka.
The Ceylon Medical Journal
|August 15, 1998
Abstract
Objective:
To identify the most useful indications for image-guided percutaneous nephrostomy (PCN).
Design:
Retrospective analysis of immediate outcome of the procedure in 46 patients.
Setting:
Department of Radiology, The National Hospital of Sri Lanka, Colombo.
Patients:
46 patients on whom 59 PCNs done between June 1995 and August 1996.
Results:
57 PCNs were successful and 2 failed. Clinical improvement was observed in all patients with acute obstructive renal failure, pyorenephrosis and fistulae. Benefits were minimal in patients with chronic obstruction and none with terminal malignancy.