Clinical investigation of the treatment of children urethral calculi with pneumatic lithotripsy under ureteroscopy / 中华男科学杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To evaluate the therapeutic effects of pneumatic lithotripsy on children urethral calculi.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Twenty-two cases of the male children with urethral calculi were treated with pneumatic lithotripsy under ureteroscopy.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>All the patients were treated successfully in a single procedure. The time of lithotripsy was (5.5 +/- 2.2) minutes, and no serious complication such as obvious hematuria, infection and urethral stricture occurred.</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>It is suggested that pneumatic lithotripsy under ureteroscopy is an effective and simple way for the treatment of urethral calculi in children.</p>