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    • Stone fragmentation by ultrasound

      S K Shrivastava Kailash

      Mechanical Properties Volume 27 Issue 4 August 2004 pp 383-385

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    • Keywords

       

      Stone fragmentation; ultrasound; ESWL.

    • Abstract

       

      The presence of kidney stone in the kidney causes discomfort to patients. Hence, removal of such stones is important which is commonly done these days, non-destructively, with lithotripters without surgery. Commercially, lithotripters like extra-corporeal shock wave lithotripters (ESWL) made by Siemens etc are in routine use. These methods are very cumbersome and expensive. Treatment of the patients also takes comparatively more time because of more number of sittings. Some delicate nerves and fibres in the surrounding areas of the stones present in the kidney are also damaged by high ultrasonic intensity used in such systems. In the present work, enhancement of the kidney stone fragmentation by using ultrasound is studied. The cavitation bubbles are found to implode faster, with more disintegration efficiency of the lithotripters, which give better treatment to the patients.

    • Author Affiliations

       

      S K Shrivastava1 Kailash2

      1. Department of Physics, Institute of Basic Sciences, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi 284 128, India
      2. Physics Department, BNV College, Rath (Hamirpur) 210 431, India

    • Dates

       
      Published
      August 2004
      Manuscript received
      29 March 2004
      Manuscript revised
      20 May 2004

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