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Studies from M.M. Agarwal and co-researchers in the area of surgery published

Published in Medical Device Law Weekly, April 19th, 2009

"We present endourologic management strategies and tricks to minimize instrumentation and complications in longindwelling encrusted stents. Seventeen patients presented with 19 retained ureteral stents (median indwelling time 3.0y; 0.25 to 17y)," investigators in Chandigarh, India report.

"Investigations included x-ray, ultrasound, noncontrast computed tomography, excretory urography, magnetic resonance imaging, Tc-99m diethylenetriaminepenta-acetic acid scan, and retrograde ureterography. Incrustation was present in all stents, encrustation 16, stone formation 11, and spontaneous fragmentation 3. All patients had gaping of ureteric orifices and dilated capacious...

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