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Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — A Large Uterine Fibroid Complicated by Stone in the Bladder; Abdominal Hysterectomy and Litholapaxy; Recovery ...

Search strategy Searches were conducted until March 30, 2018. #1 (urolithiasis OR urinary lithiasis OR nephrolithiasis OR kidney calculi OR ureterolithiasis OR ureteral calculi OR urinary calculi) AND ...

There are 2 codes available to report cystoscopy with litholapaxy of bladder calculi: CPT code 52317 (less than 2.5 cm) and CPT code 52318 (greater than 2.5 cm). There are also 2 codes for stone or ...

E. L. Keyes. Litholapaxy. Annals of the Anatomical and Surgical Society, June, 1880, page 209. W. W. Greene. Ten Cases. Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, July 15, 1880, page 51. Sir Henry Thompson.

Both these pioneers adopted and improved the eminent American surgeon Bigelow's practice of litholapaxy, or the complete removal of all the fragments of a crhed calculus from the urinary bladder ...

Additionally, the duration of indwelling catheter in patients undergoing nephrectomy and ureteroscopic litholapaxy is shorter compared to bladder tumor resection and prostatectomy.

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If the physician elected to manipulate the stone into the bladder and then to laser the stone in the bladder, we would recommend one of the litholapaxy codes based upon size of the stone (CPT 52317 or ...