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NEPHROSTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS

Specialty Definition: NEPHROSTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS

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The insertion of a catheter through the skin and body wall into the kidney pelvis, mainly to provide urine drainage where the ureter is not functional. It is used also to remove or dissolve renal calculi and to diagnose ureteral obstruction. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: NEPHROSTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 45 50 48 52 4F 53 54 4F 4D 59 2C      50 45 52 43 55 54 41 4E 45 4F 55 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01000101 01010000 01001000 01010010 01001111 01010011 01010100 01001111 01001101 01011001 00101100 00100000 01010000 01000101 01010010 01000011 01010101 01010100 01000001 01001110 01000101 01001111 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#69 &#80 &#72 &#82 &#79 &#83 &#84 &#79 &#77 &#89 &#44 &#32 &#80 &#69 &#82 &#67 &#85 &#84 &#65 &#78 &#69 &#79 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0045 0050 0048 0052 004F 0053 0054 004F 004D 0059 002C      0050 0045 0052 0043 0055 0054 0041 004E 0045 004F 0055 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4839504252495354494759142503952375554354839495553

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