(1) Under fluoroscopic control a lower polar calix was punctured with 18 G sheathed needle; a guide wire was introduced through the sheet.
(2) Intravenous urography reveals the presence of a persistent lacuna in a calix or of the pelvis, radiologic evidence of the abnormal papilla.
(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) These anatomical data confirm that the dorsal calix is the route of choice in the percutaneous approach to the kidney.
(5) In their number parenchyma-avoiding fistulization of the kidney through the renal pelvis, erroneous choice of a calix to be punctured which resulted in the acute angle position of the canal axis to the calculus thus making its removal impossible or inconvenient; supermedial access to the kidney and transparent puncturing of the calices increasing surgery-related traumatism and the risk for hemorrhages.
(6) Especially, calix showed a clearer contrast than those obtained with Urografin.
(7) With this method in 24 cases we have dislocated 9 pelvic-stones, 13 calix-stones and 3 upper ureteral stones which could not remove themselves.
(8) Extreme lipophilicity of the receptor molecules is therefore required: calix crown ethers and calixspherands meet these requirements.
(9) The obstruction developed following removal of the nephrostomy tube at the infundibular outlet to the calix where the tube had resided.
(10) Percutaneous electroresection of the tumor was performed after puncture of an inferior (3 patients) or middle (1) calix and dilation of the nephrostomy tract up to 30F.
(11) Calix afferent fibers generate depolarizing DC (direct current) and superimposed AC (alternating current) potentials in response to a vibrating stimulation of the hair bundle in an isolated preparation of a chicken semicircular canal ampulla.
(12) The renal pelvis is the most common site, but the lesion can be localized, even if rarely, in a calix or in the ureter.
(13) The stone-free rate was dependent on the site of the stone, with the majority of residual fragments lying in a lower pole calix.
(14) The diagnosis of tuberculosis was confirmed by epididymal biopsy, by intravenous urography which revealed a cavity in a left superior calix and above all by the presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis at bacteriological urine examination.
(15) Stenting failed in 4 patients and in 1 patient caused rupture of a calix.
(16) A new application with the rigid ureteropyeloscope was used to remove a ureteral stone that had migrated into a lower renal calix.
(17) The axis of the dorsal calix follows the avascular line and passes to the lateral border of the paravertebral muscles, avoiding the left and right colon.
(18) Of 170 patients who underwent percutaneous nephrostolithotomy, 61 had stones located in a calix.
(19) The radiological study is the basis of the diagnosis, when the diverticular cavity is refilled late, when the contrast of the same is drained slowly and when there is a communication with the pelvis or calix, hence the importance of the late plates.
(20) The lower calix is responsible for a significant number of kidneys with residual stone fragments after extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL*).
Calx
Definition:
(n.) Quicklime.
(n.) The substance which remains when a metal or mineral has been subjected to calcination or combustion by heat, and which is, or may be, reduced to a fine powder.
(n.) Broken and refuse glass, returned to the post.
Example Sentences:
(1) His fifth album as Aphex Twin - other aliases include AFX, Polygon Window, Caustic Window, Blue Calx, The Dice Man, GAK, Power-Pill and Q-Chastic - is the new double-CD, Drukqs, which ranges from exquisite blue mood piano meditations worthy of Debussy or Erik Satie to furious digital exercises that sound like pneumatic drills gone haywire.