DO STONES ALWAYS PASS OUT AFTER LITHOTRIPSY TREATMENT?
WHAT IS ENDOSCOPIC LITHOTRIPSY? Many stones can be removed without conventional surgery by introducing small telescopes into the body either through normal urinary passage or through a pencil size hole in the skin (the percutaneous approach). HOW ARE STONES IN THE URETER REMOVED? Suitable stones within the ureter can be crushed with ESWL, be removed, pushed back to the kidney for subsequent ESWL or broken down by small portable lithotriptor under direct vision and removed using forceps. This avoids the need for open surgery. WHAT IS MINIMALLY INVASIVE TREATMENT? PCNL or can be reached via a pencil sized skin hole and very large kidney Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy is minimally invasive surgery for large kidney stones. Stones in the kidney stones can be broken down within the kidney and removed piecemeal. Consequently, the remaining small fragments become easily manageable with ESWL. IS CONVENTIONAL SURGERY STILL REQUIRED FOR STONES? Not all stones are amenable to treatment by the modern
