Stones/endourology

This page summarises "classic" and useful papers in the area of stones and endourology

Stone treatment Meta analysis of medical therapy to facilitate urinary stone passage Stone prevention Harvard Medical School. Comparison of dietary calcium with supplemental calcium and other nutrients as factors affecting the risk for kidney stones in women Harvard Medical School. Urinary volume, water and recurrences in idiopathic calcium nephrolithiasis: a 5-year randomized prospective study.

Renal/Ureteric stone surgery 2005 AUA staghorn guidlines Optimal method of urgent decompression of the collecting system for obstruction and infection due to ureteral calculi Stone assessment Prediction of stone composition from plain radiographs: a prospective study Role of computed tomography with no contrast medium enhancement in predicting the outcome of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy for urinary calculi