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 …

Purpose: There is rising concern over the increasing amount of patient radiation exposure
from diagnostic imaging and medical procedures. Patients with nephrolithiasis are at …

The purpose of the review was to present the latest updates on percutaneous
nephrolithotomy (PCNL) procedure in terms of indications and evolving techniques, and to …

OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to determine the clinical effectiveness of
prospectively reported sonographic twinkling artifact for the diagnosis of renal calculus in …

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 …

Abstract Background and Purpose: Precise needle puncture of the kidney is a challenging
and essential step for successful percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL). Many devices and …

The color Doppler ultrasound twinkling artifact, which highlights kidney stones with rapidly
changing color, has the potential to improve stone detection; however, its inconsistent …

Introduction: Burst wave lithotripsy is an experimental technology to noninvasively fragment
kidney stones with focused bursts of ultrasound (US). This study evaluated the safety and …

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BACKGROUND. Targeted axillary lymph node dissection after neoadjuvant systemic …

Purpose: Ultrasound (US) overestimates stone size when compared with CT. The purpose of
this work was to evaluate the overestimation of stone size with US in an in vitro water bath …