key articles
Factors influencing urologist treatment preference in surgical management of stone disease
Tuesday, 17 January 2012- M. Adam Childs and colleagues conducted a study to assess the surgeon factors influencing the surgical treatment decisions for symptomatic stone disease. They published their findings in the...
Edited by: JV
Efficacy and safety of ureteroscopy for ureteral calculi in pregnancy
Friday, 13 January 2012- Y. Bozkurt and colleagues conducted a study to investigate the efficacy and safety of ureteroscopy (URS) in pregnant women. They published their findings in a recent online edition of the journal...
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Doxazosin and the success of SWL in the treatment of upper ureteral stones
Thursday, 12 January 2012- F. Ateş and colleagues conducted a study to investigate the effect of doxazosin, administered to the subjects who underwent SWL due to upper ureteral stones, on therapeutic outcomes. They published...
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Diagnosing and managing symptomatic ureteric stones during pregnancy
Thursday, 22 December 2011- K. Isen and colleagues conducted a study to present their experience in describing the diagnosis and management of symptomatic ureteric stones during pregnancy. They published their report in an online...
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Effects of drinking water quality on urinary parameters in men with and without urinary tract stones
Wednesday, 21 December 2011- There is some controversy regarding the impact of water hardness on stone risk. M Mirzazadeh and colleagues conducted a study to examine this issue in a controlled setting. They published their...
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Ureteroscopy assisted retrograde nephrostomy: a new technique for percutaneous nephrolithotomy
Friday, 16 December 2011- Retrograde nephrostomy was first developed by Lawson et al. in 1983, and Hunter et al. reported 30 cases of retrograde nephrostomy in 1987. This procedure uses less radiation exposure and has a shorter...
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Absence of bacterial imprints on struvite-containing kidney stones
Monday, 12 December 2011- Bacterial imprints are always observed on highly carbonated apatite kidney stones but not struvite kidney stones. Struvite and carbonated apatite stones with a high CO32–/PO43– rate are believed to...
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Link between depression and chronic kidney stone formation
Thursday, 8 December 2011- J. Angell and colleagues conducted a study to examine the hypothesis that patients with urolithiasis would have a higher prevalence of depression compared to the general population.
Urolithiasis is...
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Radiological technologists and the outcome of shock wave lithotripsy
Wednesday, 16 November 2011- M. A. Elkoushy and colleagues conducted a study to evaluate the correlation of radiological technologists (RTs) and the outcome of shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) in terms of fluoroscopy time,...
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Flexible ureterorenoscopy vs miniaturised PNL for solitary renal stones (10–30 mm size)
Friday, 11 November 2011- The value of flexible ureterorenoscopy (fURS) and miniaturised PNL (mPNL) for larger renal calculi is under discussion. T. Knoll and colleagues conducted a non-randomised prospective study aimed to...
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