(1) Long-term success as measured by relief of symptoms and a state free of stones was attained in 82 per cent of the patients, implying that this form of treatment is indicated for symptomatic caliceal stones.
(2) Macroscopically the kidneys were mostly small with focal scarring of the renal parenchyma and dilatation of the corresponding calices.
(3) The indications for percutaneous removal of calculi in caliceal diverticula depend on two aspects: it should be possible to puncture the caliceal diverticula via by a short parenchymal route coaxial to the axis of the calix and, if the intercostal approach is used, a pleural lesion must be excluded.
(4) Differentiating a ruptured cyst from congenital caliceal diverticulum may sometimes be difficult.
(5) Our previous work indicated that MY1049 was able to grow and produce abundant mycelium in the renal calices of infected mice but that the strain was unable to invasively colonize the renal tissue.
(6) We report 2 cases of definite caliceal diverticula progressing to simple renal cortical cysts.
(7) Clear improvements in demonstrating the details when employing a 28 cm image amplifier input format in place of the additionally used 40 cm are seen only with the system of the renal calices.
(8) The radiographic features of renal coccidioidomycosis parallel those of renal tuberculosis, with feathery, moth-eaten calices, infundibular constriction and caliceal ballooning, and eventual calcification of granulomas.
(9) Lesions treated included 168 caliceal, 111 pyelic, 23 ureteral and 21 coralliform calculi.
(10) We analyze the results achieved by extracorporeal piezoelectric lithotripsy (EPL) in 40 renal units with the following anatomic anomalies: solitary kidney (10), chronic pyelonephritis (8), medulospongiosis (6), caliceal diverticula (5), intrarenal cysts (5), pyeloureteric duplicity (3), megacaliosis (1), horseshoe kidney (1), and ureterocele (1).
(11) The factors were as follows; the shape of calculi: staghorn calculus with multiple small calculi, the shape of the renal collecting system: narrow pelvis with narrow caliceal neck and dilatated calices, and the operative technique: nephrolithotomy.
(12) The stones of 2 failed to disintegrate for migration of the stones into the calices.
(13) We describe a transplanted patient operated on many times for repair of a complex recurrent caliceal fistula that warranted three uncommonly used but effective procedures for closure in order to obtain a viable graft.
(14) Ureteral peristalsis originates in the most proximal parts of the caliceal system.
(15) Several tumors were found in upper and lower calices.
(16) There is continuing debate about the optimum management of patients with calculi in caliceal diverticula.
(17) Ultrasound detected caliceal or cystic changes in 70%.
(18) Currently, there are no guidelines for the selection of patients for caliceal stone removal, although there is no doubt that urologists are taking a more aggressive approach now that treatments with low morbidity are available.
(19) Since ESWL is an effective noninvasive procedure without the need for routine anesthesia and hospitalization, and with prompt return of the patient to a normal life it must be considered the method of choice for lower caliceal stones less than 2 cm.
(20) However, when calices containing CIRF are significantly dilated, further EPL is of no value.
Calicle
Definition:
(n.) One of the small cuplike cavities, often with elevated borders, covering the surface of most corals. Each is formed by a polyp. (b) One of the cuplike structures inclosing the zooids of certain hydroids. See Campanularian.