Stone in the urinary tract has fascinated the medical profession from the earliest times and
has played an important part in the development of surgery. The earliest major planned …

The discovery of the etiology of urinary calculus is essentially a urologic problem. Cancer,
with its protean manifestations throughout the body, elicits the interest of all branches of …

Ramon Guiteras, whom the American Urological Association has honored by the
establishment of this lectureship, was your first president; and his zest for living was …

In this presentation I have attempted to provide a sufficiently detailed perspective of current
thoughts regarding the formation of renal calculi and an approach to the clinical evaluation …

A concise account of formation mechanisms of attached (papillary) and unattached renal
stones is presented. Urinary conditions prevailing at least during the stone forming period …

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In all but one case, the salts that contribute to stone formation normally supersaturate the
urine. Why then do some persons form kidney stones? This is discussed, along with the role …

The term “idiopathic” renal lithiasis refers to the various types of stones formed in the kidney
for which there is no clearly identifiable cause. Recent advances in renal stone research …

Management of most patients with calculous disease has been less than ideal in the past.
Too often therapeutic efforts were limited to symptomatic calculi. Stones were allowed to …

Selective medical therapy of nephrolithiasis is highly effective in preventing new stone
formation. A remission rate of greater than 80% and an overall reduction in individual stone …