... the wide availability of laser lithotripsy as a tool for stone fragmentation, pneumatic lithotripsy was, and still is, widely used. In a country like Iraq, availability and affordability are the huge questions asked. Besides the capital investment for a laser machine, the pneumatic device is reusable...

...Shulian Chen; Liang Zhou; Tangqiang Wei; Deyi Luo; Tao Jin; Hong Li; Kunjie Wang Purpose: Holmium YAG laser lithotripsy (LL) and pneumatic lithotripsy (PL) are the most commonly used procedures in the treatment of ureteral calculi. In a previous meta-analysis examining the treatment effect of the 2...

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... patients underwent URS with pneumatic lithotripsy (PL) for bilateral stones. 61 (55.5%), 28 (25.4%) and 21 (19.1%) stones were located in the lower, middle and upper ureter, respectively. Results: Of the 110 stones, 99 (90.0%) were fragmented in a single procedure. The stone clearance rate was 94.5% after...

... Stones Laser Pneumatic lithotripsy Ureteroscopy is one of the most commonly performed procedures by the general urologist. The advancement of ureteroscopy and related working instruments to manipulate or fragment ureteral calculi has significantly increased treatment options. A variety...

...Kenan Isen Objectives: To assess the efficacy and safety of ureteroscopic pneumatic lithotripsy for multiple ureteric stones. Materials and Methods: 36 patients with multiple ureteric stones were treated with ureteroscopic lithotripsy (URSL). A 8/9.8-Fr Wolf semirigid ureteroscope and pneumatic...

... removed only by a basket catheter or disintegrated by pneumatic lithotripsy. Success rates, auxiliary procedures, complication rates and operation time were comparatively evaluated according to stone location. Results: Overall, mean stone size and age were 12.1 ± 3.7 mm and 43.2 ± 9.72 years, respectively...

.... Methods: 55 patients having ureteric calculus were randomly allocated into pneumatic lithotripsy (PL) and laser lithotripsy (LL) groups. Swiss lithoclast was used for PL (3 atm pressure and 12 Hz frequency) and the VersaPulse PowerSuite was used for LL. Appropriate statistical tests were applied. Results...

...: Between February 2001 and October 2006, a total of 1,296 patients underwent ureteroscopy with pneumatic lithotripsy. Of these, 38 patients (2.9%) had bilateral ureter stones. The stones were located in the lower, middle and upper ureter in 44 (57.9%), 21 (27.6%) and 11 (14.5%) of the cases, respectively...

... stone size (p = 0.51), ureter diameter (p = 0.78), and operative success. Conclusion: Stones that are close to the renal pelvis and treated by inexperienced physicians are the ones most likely to migrate to the renal pelvis during manipulation with pneumatic lithotripsy. 7 10 2005 31 01 2006...

...M. Gonen; A. Cenker; O. Istanbulluoglu; H. Ozkardes Introduction: Ureteroscopic pneumatic lithotripsy has been used to treat ureteral calculi for more than 10 years. Owing to its low price and high degree of effectiveness, it has become the most popular ureteroscopic lithotripsy device in use...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Staghorn stone Anatrophic nephrolithotomy Pyelolithotomy Pneumatic lithotripsy Urologia Internationalis Original Paper Urol Int 2004;72:140 144 DOI: 10.1159/000075968 Received: April 11, 2003 Accepted after revision: July 2...

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