| Medical Definition: |
Fragmentation of calculi, notably urinary or biliary, by laser. It is usually performed with an endoscopically guided pulsed tunable dye laser, a combination of a pulsed laser and a dye laser usually referred to as a pulsed dye laser. It is both safe and effective when extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy is infeasible or unsuccessful. |
| Guide Notes: |
do not use /util except by MeSH definition; coord IM with disease /ther, not /surg (IM) |
| Also Called: |
Pulsed Tunable Dye Laser Lithotripsy,Dye Laser Lithotripsy,Pulsed Dye Laser Lithotripsy,Shockwave Lithotripsy, Laser-Induced |
| Previously Indexed: |
Lasers/therapeutic use (1984-1993),Lithotripsy (1986-1993) |
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