In older children and adolescents, URS provides similar stone clearance to PCNL, but postoperative relief is not better. Ureteroscopy (URS) is as effective as percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) for ...

Struvite stones form a subset of kidney stones that are exclusively associated with urease-producing bacteria Stone culture at the time of treatment or urine culture from the renal pelvis provides ...

Urologists now have new options for stone extraction devices when performing percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL), as Cook Medical is launching the Perc NGage ® and Perc NCompass ® nitinol stone ...

(HealthDay News) — For patients undergoing percutaneous stone removal, preoperative urine culture does not predict intraoperative stone culture results, according to a study published in the September ...

The optimal care of patients with urinary tract stone disease has been recognized to comprise both active removal of stones and methods aimed at preventing stone recurrences. Undoubtedly, ...

Removing small, asymptomatic kidney stones during surgery to take out a culprit ureteral or contralateral kidney stone led to less relapse — emergency department visits, surgeries, and secondary stone ...

Some people who have kidney stones never know it because the stones remain in the kidneys. The pain begins when the stones pass out of the kidney and through the ureter, the duct by which urine passes ...

February 15, 2011 — Evaluation and management of nephrolithiasis are reviewed in an article reported in the February issue of the Southern Medical Journal. "New information has become available on the ...