Extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy in the treatment of gallstone patients

Kolesnikov, B.D.; Chubenko, S.S.; Romankova, V.A.

Likars'ka Sprava 4: 65-68

1993


ISSN/ISBN: 1019-5297
PMID: 8209452
Document Number: 415859
Stroke-wave lithotripsy (SWL) was used for the treatment of patients with cholelithiasis. Indications and contraindications were strictly observed. This method provides destruction calculi down to a size of 2-3 mm which enables them to enter the intestine without local injury. Subsequent choleritics, exercises, duodenal to reduce time of gallbladder emptying and intake of litholytics.

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