[Percutaneous ultrasound lithotripsy of staghorn calculi]. / Perkutane Ultraschall-Lithotripsie von Korallensteinen.

It is reported on the percutaneous litholapaxy of 3 staghorn calculi. Since November 1984 1100 percutaneous nephrolitholapaxies were performed, 106 cases of them were staghorn calculi.

Ultrasonic destruction and endoscopic removal of kidney, ureteral, bladder and urethral stones.

Endoscopic removal of renal calculi was introduced at our department in 1984, first in Hungary and East-Europe. Renal, ureteral, bladder and urethral calculi are all endoscopically removed partially following ultrasonic destruction. The procedure is similarly used in cases of solitary kidney or of kidneys with staghorn calculi. Several hundreds of successful cases have proved the necessity and importance of the procedure.

[Single-row wire suture of the sigmoid in Goodwin operations]. / Einreihige Drahtnaht des Sigma bei Goodwin-Operationen.

In Goodwin operations the authors have closed the intestinal wound resulting from longitudinal sigmoidotomy using a single-row uninterrupted transverse suture with atraumatic monofile steel wire. This suture technique has proved to be safe. No complications which might be associated with it have been observed.