Müssen alle Nierensteine behandelt werden?

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

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. […]
