[Extracorporeal ultrasonic lithotripsy of biliary calculi].

Abstract

The article analyses the efficacy of extracorporeal lithotripsy by a LT-01 piezoelectric lithotriptor (EDAP, France). A total of 72 lithotripsy sessions were performed on 37 patients, in 2 of them who suffered from chronic calculous cholecystitis the procedure was conducted on the day before the operation. As a method for treatment, extracorporeal lithotripsy was applied in 35 patients for the following indications: solitary and multiple stones measuring in sum no more than 3 cm in the satisfactory functioning of the gallbladder and patency of the bile ducts. In 35 patients the stones were crushed to fragments of various size. In 29 patients extracorporeal lithotripsy produced a marked effect and was the final method of treatment. Six patients were operated on (cholecystectomy) due to exacerbation of chronic cholecystitis in 4 patients, pancreatitis in one patient; total destruction of calcinated large stone fragments could not be achieved after 6 sessions in one patient.

• Authors: V D Fedorov, V P Strekalovskiĭ, V S Pomelov, A I Kuz'min, A E Kotovskiĭ, N P Gorbunova, E S Lemiagova, M P Gorev
• Journal: Khirurgiia (Khirurgiia (Mosk)) Issue 10 Pg. 16-21 (Oct 1991) ISSN: 0023-1207 [Print] Russia (Federation)
• Vernacular Title: Ekstrakorporal'naia ul'trazvukovaia litotripsiia zhelchnykh kamneĭ.
• PMID: 1803086 (Publication Type: Case Reports, English Abstract, Journal Article)

Topics

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Aged
• Cholelithiasis (therapy)
• Chronic Disease
• Female
• Gallstones (therapy)
• Humans
• Lithotripsy (instrumentation, methods)
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Particle Size
• Ultrasonic Therapy (instrumentation, methods)