[Combined radiodiagnosis of urinary calculi in flying personnel].

This work was to assess effectiveness of radiation investigations in the diagnostics of cholelithiasis in flying personnel. Examined were 217 cholelithiasis patients from the flying personnel including 50 fighter, 67 transport, 31 long haul and 69 helicopter pilots. All the pilots passed USI in real time, survey and excretory urography, radio-isotope renography and X-ray computerized tomography on indication. The paper review the present-day aspects of radiation diagnostics of cholelithiasis in flying personnel. Semiotic signs of concrement fragmentation during treatment with the method of remote shock-wave lithotripsy were specified. The most characteristic features of their evacuation from the urine system were described. As was demonstrated, USI of flying personnel is the method of choice in diagnostics of renal and gall concrements but of little use in localizing concrements in ureter where the survey and excretory urography are prioritized.