(n.) The operation of crushing a stone in the bladder with an instrument called lithotriptor or lithotrite; lithotrity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Enzymatic activity per gram of urinary creatinine was consistently but not significantly higher before extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy than in control subjects.
(2) Management of obstructive upper ureteral calculi by first flushing the lithiasis to renal cavity and secondary extracorporeal lithotripsy is proposed as a routine guide-line, especially when treatment by ESWL is not immediately available.
(3) Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy has significantly altered the management of symptomatic renal and ureteral calculi.
(4) A 70-year-old man suffering from nephrolithiasis developed acute pyelonephritis following extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy of renal stones.
(5) The object of this investigation was to determine gallstone susceptibility to laser lithotripsy and to discover whether this susceptibility is related to the computed tomography (CT) appearance of gallstones.
(6) The article analyses the efficacy of extracorporeal lithotripsy by a LT-01 piezoelectric lithotriptor (EDAP, France).
(7) On the basis of this initial experience, transhepatic laser lithotripsy is a technically feasible and safe alternative when choledocholithiasis cannot be managed with retrograde endoscopy, ESWL, or surgery.
(8) Fifteen patients with mean age 74 (range 34-94) years were treated with extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy (ESWL) for bile-duct stones (intrahepatic in 4 cases) following failure of surgical or endoscopic treatment.
(9) Compared with conventional mechanical lithotripsy with serrated, jawed instruments, electrohydraulic lithotripsy is a safe, easy to learn and effective technique for treating bladder stones.
(10) Questionnaires about stone recurrence after treatment with percutaneous nephrolithotripsy (PNL) or extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) were sent to 11 hospitals in the central section of Japan.
(11) The patients were studied 0 to 24 and 32 to 56 h after extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL).
(12) Ultrasound is an indispensable tool for preliminary diagnosis ('filter function'), during treatment ('monitoring function') and in the followup examinations ('follow-up function') after shock wave lithotripsy of gallstones.
(13) Extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy with piezoelectric shock waves provides painless and efficient gallstone fragmentation.
(14) Three hundred and sixty one extracorporeal lithotripsies for renal, ureteric and bladder stones have been performed by means of a system of ultrasonographic detection and piezoelectric destruction (EDAP LT01).
(15) Six patients required a repeat extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy procedure for residual fragments during their initial admission to hospital.
(16) Extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy was used for noninvasive stone fragmentation and the fragments were passed without complication.
(17) Tunable-dye laser lithotripsy appears superior to the ultrasonic device for percutaneous treatment of bile duct stones.
(18) In another patient, lithotripsy was performed because small stones were thought to be present in the milk of calcium.
(19) All patients are well 7 to 10 months after lithotripsy and there have been no long-term complications.
(20) These include oral bile salt therapy and gallstone lithotripsy.
Stone
Definition:
(n.) Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones.
(n.) A precious stone; a gem.
(n.) Something made of stone. Specifically: -
(n.) The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
(n.) A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
(n.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
(n.) One of the testes; a testicle.
(n.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
(n.) A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
(n.) Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
(n.) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone.
(n.) To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
(n.) To make like stone; to harden.
(n.) To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
(n.) To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
(n.) To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among its signatories were Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover.
(2) Follow-up studies using radiological methods show worse results (recurrent stones in II: 21.2%, in I: 5.8%, stenosis of EST in II: 6.1%, in I: 3.1%): Late results of EST because of papillary stenosis are still worse compared to those of choledocholithiasis.
(3) Other serious complications were reservoir perforation during catheterisation in 3 and development of stones in the reservoir in 2 patients.
(4) In conclusion, 1) etiology of urinary tract stone in all recurrent stone formers and in all patients with multiple stones must be pursued, and 2) all stones either removed or passed must be subjected to infrared spectrometry.
(5) Predisposition to pancreatitis relates to duct size rather than stone size per se.
(6) Three of these patients, who had a solitary stone could successfully be treated by ESWL as monotherapy.
(7) In cholesterol stones and cholesterolosis specimens, relatively strong muscle strips had similar responses to 10(-6) M cholecystokinin-8 in normal calcium (2.5 mM) and in the absence of extracellular calcium.
(8) No significant complications were related to ESWL and 90% of those followed up after successful ESWL proved stone-free at 6 weeks.
(9) The addition of alcohol to the drinking-water resulted in the formation of stones rich in pigment.
(10) One biliary stone showed cholesterol with spherical bodies of calcium carbonate and pigment.
(11) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
(12) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(13) The minimal advantage in rapidity of stone dissolution offered by tham E over tham is more than offset by the considerably increased potential for toxic side effects.
(14) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
(15) It is no longer necessary for the kidney to be free of stones at the end of the operation.
(16) So let's be clear: children taking this drug, which is administered orally, do not get stoned.
(17) Patients with unilateral renal stone(s) with at least 1 diameter between 7 and 25 mm.
(18) Whether they affect ureteral motility in vivo or whether they can counteract ureteral spasm associated with ureteral stones have not been established.
(19) Recurrent stones are usually "silent," and we do not usually treat asymptomatic stones.
(20) Forty impressions were poured with the disinfectant dental stone and a similar number were poured with a comparable, nondisinfectant stone.