Recent technological developments in the management of urinary tract stones

Approach and Medical Management of Urinary Tract Stone in Children

Kidney stone disease has become more common in children, but it remains non diagnosed in a significant proportion of patients, due to a lack of notable signs and symptoms. All children with colicky abdominal pain or microscopic hematuria should be examined thoroughly for urolithiasis. Patients’ histories in terms of family, medical, and drug and a thorough physical examination are require...

Endourologic strategies for a minimally invasive management of urinary tract stones in patients with urinary diversion

OBJECTIVE To present our experience in minimally invasive management of urinary tract stones in patients with urinary diversion. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 26 patients with urinary tract stones after cystectomy and urinary diversion. The types of urinary diversion were ileal conduit, colon conduit, ileal orthotopic neobladder in 19, 4, and 3 patients, respectively. At p...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Recent developments of the two-dimensional technological process simulator OSIRIS

Management of Lower Urinary Tract Stones in Paediatric Population. A Comparison of Endoscopic versus Open Procedures

Objective: To compare the safety and efficiency of endoscopic treatment methodology vs open surgical procedures in pediatric lower tract stone disease. Method: This study was conducted in Department of Urology, Karachi Medical and Dental College & Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, from July 2010 to December 2012. The characteristics of the patients in the two groups, and the outcomes of the two procedur...