... in the endoscopic treatment of urolithiasis. In modern medicine, radiation exposure from diagnostics and therapy is increasing; however, the impact of UAS on procedure duration, fluoroscopy time, and radiation exposure is still uncertain. Methods: This retrospective study included 1,026 patients who received...

...%. There were no significant differences between the size of the calculi measured by US and CT. Thus, patients with UC identified by US could be diagnosed definitely and treated according to the US data, reducing unnecessary CT scans and excessive radiation exposure. In this study, if US was performed...

...Marios Hadjipavlou; Vincent Lam; Jai Seth; Faqar Anjum; Seshadri Sriprasad Introduction and Objectives: Stone formers often have a chronic exposure to significant quantities of ionising radiation from radiological investigations and interventions. Predicting radiation exposure would allow...