Treatment of Upper Ureteral Stones
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in European Urology
- Vol. 14 (2), 111-114
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000472915
Abstract
From September 1984 to March 1986, 70 patients with upper ureteral stones were treated in our institution. 43 patients underwent endoscopic procedures including retrograde ureterorenoscopy, antegrade ureterorenoscopy and percutaneous surgery. A second group of 27 patients was treated by extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy(ESWL). The overall success rate was 74.5 and 85% for the endoscopic and the ESWL groups, respectively. Obstruction and dilatation of the renal collecting system seemed to play a major role in the failure of either endoscopic or ESWL treatment.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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