Christian Bach,Theocharis Karaolides,Noor Buchholz
Christian Bach
Objectives: Thirty years after its introduction, extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL) is still first-line treatment for more than half of all urinary tract stones, but machines and treatment strategies have signifi...
Tamer El-Husseiny,Noor Buchholz
Tamer El-Husseiny
Objective: To highlight the role of open stone surgery in the management of urolithiasis in the current era of minimally invasive therapies. The introduction and continuous development of extracorporeal shockwave lithotri...
Low-dose unenhanced computed tomography for diagnosing stone disease in obese patients [0.03%]
低剂量无增强CT在肥胖患者泌尿系结石诊断中的应用价值
Mohamed E Abou El-Ghar,Ahmed A Shokeir,Huda F Refaie et al.
Mohamed E Abou El-Ghar et al.
Objective: To evaluate the detectability, size, location and density of urinary stones with unenhanced computed tomography (CT), using the half-radiation (low) dose (LDCT) technique, compared with the standard-dose CT (SD...
Walter Ludwig Strohmaier
Walter Ludwig Strohmaier
Objectives: Urolithiasis is a considerable economic burden for health systems, especially in industrialised countries where the incidence of stone disease has increased during the last few decades, and probably will furth...
William G Robertson
William G Robertson
Objectives: To review the possible causes of the high incidence of urolithiasis in the oil-rich Gulf States. Methods: Data were extract...
Bernhard Hess
Bernhard Hess
Objectives: To give a comprehensive and focused overview on the current knowledge of the causal relations of metabolic syndrome and/or central obesity with kidney stone formation. ...
William G Robertson
William G Robertson
Objective: To compare various systems for assessing the risk of recurrent stones, based on the composition of urine. Methods: The relat...
Dirk J Kok
Dirk J Kok
Objective: The most common urinary stones (calcium salts, uric acid) form due to genetic factors and lifestyle. This review describes why, if and how medication and lifestyle changes can reduce the risk of formation. ...
Harriet M Syme
Harriet M Syme
Objective: To review the clinical features of stone disease in dogs and cats for a non-veterinary audience. Methods: Relevant peer-revi...
Jamsheer J Talati
Jamsheer J Talati
Objective: To propose alternative models of training for doctors treating patients with stones, and to identify their relative value, as such doctors are trained through urology programmes which sometimes cannot be expand...