Use of retrograde lavage catheter during eswl treatments Journal Articles

abstract

• Use of a retrograde lavage catheter utilizing a Water-Pik for the removal of stone fragments during an extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy (ESWL) treatment is described. Three of 4 patients treated to date have been essentially stone-free at the end of their ESWL treatment. Urinary extravasation and ureteral stricturing have not occurred.

authors

• Whelan, J Paul
• Finlayson, B

status

• published 

publication date

• January 1989

has subject area

• 1103 Clinical Sciences (FoR)
• Adult (MeSH)
• Equipment Design (MeSH)
• Female (MeSH)
• Humans (MeSH)
• Kidney Calculi (MeSH)
• Kidney Pelvis (MeSH)
• Lithotripsy (MeSH)
• Male (MeSH)
• Middle Aged (MeSH)
• Suction (MeSH)
• Therapeutic Irrigation (MeSH)
• Urinary Catheterization (MeSH)
• Urology & Nephrology (Science Metrix)

published in

• Urology  Journal

keywords

• Adult
• Equipment Design
• Female
• Humans
• Kidney Calculi
• Kidney Pelvis
• Lithotripsy
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Suction
• Therapeutic Irrigation
• Urinary Catheterization

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/0090-4295(89)90062-9

PubMed ID

• 2911925

start page

• 31

end page

• 36

volume

• 33

issue

• 1