Müssen alle Nierensteine behandelt werden?

Kidney stone therapy — when conservative management is sufficient and when intervention is needed | Dr. Soarawee Weerasopone, urologist at Bangkok Hospital

Another simplicity consulting in my office which is came from the health checkup program, it was a kidney stone finding coincidently. The most common imaging modality offered in health checkups is ultrasonography – easy to perform, affordable, and radiation-free. But when goes deeper at the performance, ultrasonography is just a screening tool. Limitations of ultrasonography […]

Endoskopische Holmium-Laser-Nierensteinoperation

Endoscopic holmium laser lithotripsy — minimally invasive surgery for kidney and ureteric stones | Dr. Soarawee Weerasopone, urologist at Bangkok Hospital

The first reports of endoscopic laser surgery for urinary tract stones were published by German and British researchers in 1988, with an impressive success rate of around 84%. The main limitation at the time was stone retropulsion – the stone being pushed back into the kidney by the laser’s energy before it could be fragmented. […]

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