Kidney stone imaging is an important diagnostic tool and initial step in deciding which
therapeutic options to use for the management of kidney stones. Guidelines provided by the …

The use of ultrasound (US) technology in the management of nephrolithiasis can be traced
back to 1961, when Schlegel and colleagues 1 first published on amplitude (A)-mode …

Objectives To determine the sensitivity and specificity of ultrasonography (US) for detecting
renal calculi and to assess the accuracy of US for determining the size of calculi and how …

Patients with primary hyperoxaluria experience kidney stones from a young age and can
develop progressive oxalate nephropathy. Progression to kidney failure often develops over …

This book was written with the aim of widening the reader's spectrum of knowledge
regarding the uses of shock waves in medicine and biology, as well as to contribute to safer …

Introduction The strength of the evidence base for the comparative effectiveness of three
common surgical modalities for paediatric nephrolithiasis (ureteroscopy, shockwave …

Purpose: Ultrasound is known to overestimate kidney stone size. We explored measuring
the acoustic shadow behind kidney stones combined with different ultrasound imaging …

Urolithiasis is highly prevalent in the United States and is commonly encountered by both
primary care physicians and specialists. Based on the latest National Health and Nutrition …

Ultrasound has become a mainstay tool in urologists' armamentarium for the diagnosis and
management of nephrolithiasis. From starting as a rudimentary form of imaging, it has come …

Purpose Posterior acoustic shadow width has been proposed as a more accurate measure
of kidney stone size compared to direct measurement of stone width on ultrasound (US) …