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Minimal and non-invasive procedures of the bladder and urethra in the management of urolithiasis
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Introduction
Various methods, such as surgical, minimal invasive and non-invasive procedures, are currently available for removal of bladder and urethral calculi. The purpose of this presentation is to discuss these methods based on a review of the literature and personal experience.
Since medical dissolution has limitations and moderate success rates for most types of urinary calculi, urethroliths and cystoliths have more commonly been removed surgically or, depending on their size, by voiding urohydropropulsion.3,12 The standard procedure for removal of calculi from the bladder is cystotomy, for urethroliths this is performed after urohydropulsion, flushing the stones back into the bladder.17 If this is not successful either urethrotomy or urethrostomy are performed. 23 Related relevant complications are infection and incomplete urolith removal up to 42 % of cases for cystotomy ,2,11 and stenosis or stricture formation, hemorrhage and increased infection rates for the urethral surgical procedures.6, 14, 23 [...]
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