Selected spinal cord injury (SCI) patients with profound spasticity may be treated by implantation of a baclofen pump for intrathecal administration of baclofen. The pump is implanted in the abdominal ...

Is the use of live donors with renal calculi for kidney transplantation contraindicated in either of the following situations? If there is a history only of passage of renal calculi, but there are no ...

In patients with renal calculi, studies of new-generation lithotripters have not demonstrated equivalent stone-free rates to the early-generation HM3 spark-gap machine (Dornier MedTech Europe GmbH, ...

Open surgery has a minor role in the treatment of urinary calculi. A variety of anatomic abnormalities may prohibit endoscopic, percutaneous, or ESWL access to a calculus, and in such cases, an open ...

For permission requests, please contact NEJM Reprints at [email protected] Randall, Alexander — Professor of Urology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. For record and address of author ...

Read at the Annual Meeting of the New England Surgical Society, Fall River, Massachusetts, September 27, 1929. Barney — Chief of Service, Urological Department, Massachusetts General Hospital. For ...

Many widespread kidney stones treatments have nasty side effects. New research reveals many shortcomings of percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL). In short, PCNL can cause additional health problems.