Percutaneous nephrostomy and its applications. Personal experience

: 211 percutaneous nephrostomies (PCN) have been performed on 189 patients under combined fluoroscopic and reel time ultra-sound guidance. 4 major complications occurred with consisted in one hemorrhage and 3 septicemias. Indication of the PCN was diagnostic in 35 cases and therapeutic in 176 cases. Decompression of pyelo-caliceal system (89 cases) among with 72 in emergency, drying of an urinary fistula (8 cases), balloon dilatation of benign ureteral stenoses (18 cases) and treatment of 60 renal stones (3 dissolutions and 57 extractions). Results showed the drying of the fistula in all cases, the long term success of the balloon dilatation in 50% cases and 80% success rate of stone extraction.