enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Kidney stone disease - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_stone_disease

   Kidney stone disease, also known as renal calculus disease, nephrolithiasis or urolithiasis, is a crystallopathy where a solid piece of material (renal calculus) develops in the urinary tract. [2] Renal calculi typically form in the kidney and leave the body in the urine stream. [2] A small calculus may pass without causing symptoms. [2]

3. Lithotripsy - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithotripsy

   Lithotripsy replaced using lithotrites as the most common treatment beginning in the mid 1980s. In extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL), external shockwaves are focused at the stone to pulverize it. [6] Ureteroscopic methods use a rigid or flexible scope to reach the stone and direct mechanical or light energy at it. Endoscopy can use ...

4. Laser lithotripsy - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_lithotripsy

   Holmium laser lithotripsy had superior initial success and re-treatment rate compared to extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) in a 2013 trial. [6] The experimental thulium fiber laser (TFL) is being studied as a potential alternative to the holmium:YAG (Ho:YAG) laser for the treatment of kidney stones. The TFL has several potential ...

5. What causes kidney stones? What does kidney stone pain ... - AOL

   www.aol.com/causes-kidney-stones-does-kidney...

   Here’s how to know that you might need treatment for kidney stones: Severe pain on either side of your lower back. Vague pain or stomach ache that won’t leave. Blood in the urine.

6. Extracorporeal shockwave therapy - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracorporeal_shockwave...

   Some of the passed fragments of a 1-cm calcium oxalate stone that was smashed using lithotripsy. The most common use of extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) is for lithotripsy to treat kidney stones [3] (urinary calculosis) and biliary calculi (stones in the gallbladder or in the liver) using an acoustic pulse.

7. Lithotomy - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithotomy

   Lithotomy from Greek for "lithos" and "tomos" (), is a surgical method for removal of calculi, stones formed inside certain organs, such as the urinary tract (kidney stones), bladder (bladder stones), and gallbladder (), that cannot exit naturally through the urinary system or biliary tract.