Tag: kidney stones

Percutaneous treatment better than ureteroscopy for kidney stones, study finds

For patients with kidney stones measuring 1–2cm centimetres, a technique called mini-percutaneous nephrolithotomy (mini-PCNL) provides a higher stone elimination rate than another ureteroscopy, concludes...

Thulium fibre laser found to be clinically comparable to ‘gold-standard’ kidney...

The recently introduced thulium fibre laser (TFL) does not improve the clinical outcomes of laser treatment for urinary stones compared to the standard for...

AI-enabled surgical robot shows promise in automating renal access for kidney...

A research team led by Kazumi Taguchi, Shuzo Hamamoto and Takahiro Yasui (Nagoya City University , Nagoya, Japan) recently undertook a clinical trial to...