Limits of the possibility of Per cutaneous removal of calculi from the ureter
Article published in Urologia Polska 1992/45/2.

authors

Adam Szkodny, Krzysztof Łukojć, Wojciech Szewczyk, Grzegorz Szkodny: Z I Katedry i Kliniki Urologii Śląskiej Akademii Medycznej
im. Ludwika Waryńskiego w Katowicach Kierownik Kliniki: prof. dr hab. n. med. A. Szkodny

The paper presents 10 patients in whom calculi were removed from the upper section of the ureter with Percutaneous lithotripsy (PCNL) kit.

No perioperative complications were observed. In all patients the calculi in the ureter were wholly crushed.

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