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Thursday, 11 February 2010- During semirigid ureteroscopy with holmium laser lithotripsy, retrieving all stone fragments leads to better outcomes than allowing them to pass spontaneously, according to a paper published online...
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Thursday, 4 February 2010- Nephrolithiasis is a not infrequent complication of pregnancy. The occurrence of a stone event in a pregnant woman is a complex situation. Semins and colleagues reviewed the management of stone disease...
Edited by: JV
Tuesday, 26 January 2010- A group of researchers from Turkey evaluated the possible effect of a positive family history on the age at the onset of urinary stone disease and the frequency of subsequent symptomatic episodes...
Friday, 22 January 2010- Skin-to-stone distance (SSD) has been shown to influence the outcome of shockwave lithotripsy. SSD is composed of different tissues, including the subcutaneous fat, abdominal muscles, and renal tissue....
Wednesday, 20 January 2010- Previous epidemiological works have reported that obesity is a risk factor for kidney stone disease. However, the effect of increasing degrees of obesity on stone formation has yet to be defined.
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Thursday, 24 December 2009- A group of US researchers examined the use of medical expulsive therapy (MET) in stone disease and found that the procedure remains uncommon in the broader medical community.
J. Hollingsworth and...
