[Ultrasonically guided access to the kidney]

Arch Ital Urol Nefrol Androl. 1991 Jun:63 Suppl 2:41-8.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

Ultrasonography is an ideal procedure to guide and control the diagnostic and therapeutical percutaneous renal puncture. Some procedures considered in pre-echographic period, long, complicated and not free from risks and complications, were transformed in routine manoeuvres by the advent of ultrasound. Nowadays, thanks to the ultrasound guide, is possible to perform a rapid, accurate, safe and without anesthesia puncture of the kidney and of the upper urinary tract. Several procedures contemplating the renal puncture, can be performed in out-patients.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Biopsy / methods
  • Contraindications
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Endoscopy / methods
  • Humans
  • Kidney / diagnostic imaging*
  • Kidney / pathology
  • Kidney / surgery
  • Kidney Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Kidney Diseases / pathology
  • Kidney Diseases / surgery
  • Nephrostomy, Percutaneous / adverse effects
  • Nephrostomy, Percutaneous / instrumentation
  • Nephrostomy, Percutaneous / methods*
  • Ultrasonography
  • Ureteral Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Ureteral Diseases / pathology
  • Ureteral Diseases / surgery