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From 1985 to January 1990 a series of 298 patients with calculi of the ureter at various level were treated by ureteroscopy (lumbar 179; iliac 11; pelvic 108). We always performed the ureteral dilatation. After treatment all patients were-controlled with urography and, in particularly case (more than one ureteroscopy in same patient, complex stone) underwent also to TAC, RMN and cystography. The success rate for ureteroscopic removal calculi was 94%. We compared the complications rete between ureteroscopy and open surgical lithotomy: they were significantly less for ureteroscopic stone removal than ureterolithotomy. Ureteroscopy should be considered the method of choice in the management of ureteric calculi.
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PMID:[Complications and limitations of ureteroscopy]. 215 Feb 33

From September 1988 to April 1989, 400 patients with stones in the calyx (40%), in the renal pelvis (45%), in the ureter (15%) and with staghorn calculi (5%) underwent shock wave treatment. In the majority of patients therapy was carried out with general anesthesia. Disintegration was achieves in 95% of stones in the kidney and 44% of stones localized in the ureter following "in situ" ESWL. The ureteroscopy and stone push-up with replacement into the renal ampulla was performed in 56% of ureteral calculi. The average number of impulses to achieve disintegration was 1850. In 20 patients were necessary 4000 SW; we studied this patients with echography, TAC and RMN 48 hours after the treatment. The objective of this trial is the assessment of the efficacy and cost benefit relation of lithotripter TRIPTER X1.
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PMID:[The lithotripsy therapy center "Citta di Brescia". Our experiences with the first 400 treatments]. 253 6