About 5% of American women and 12% of men will develop a kidney stone at some time in
their life, and prevalence has been rising in both sexes. Approximately 80% of stones are …

This review draws the recent state of the art in metabolic diagnosis and metaphylaxis of
stone disease. It is the basis for the consensus approval with the other medical societies and …

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: To determine the accuracy and sensitivity for dual-energy
computed tomography (DECT) discrimination of uric acid (UA) stones from other (non-UA) …

This article summarizes the history of how renal stones have been treated over the centuries
and reviews current treatments and outcomes for renal stones. The authors provide an …

Factors that promote stone formation include low daily urine volumes; saturation of the urine
with calcium, oxalate, calcium phosphate, uric acid, or cystine; acidic urine; and bacterial …

OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this article is to evaluate in vivo the chemical composition of
urinary stones using dual-source and dual-energy CT, with crystallography as the reference …

Objectives Distinguishing between kidney stones and phleboliths can constitute a diagnostic
challenge in patients undergoing unenhanced low-dose CT (LDCT) for acute flank pain. We …

INTRODUCTION: Dual source computed tomography (CT), a novel technology that employs
two different x-ray sources, may provide an image resolution that has not been possible with …

This book was written with the aim of widening the reader's spectrum of knowledge
regarding the uses of shock waves in medicine and biology, as well as to contribute to safer …

Purpose: To assess the utility of attenuation coefficients as predictors of surgical outcome
after a single flexible ureteroscopy (URS) with holmium laser lithotripsy. Many reports …