...Masanori Iguchi; Kiyonori Kataoka; Kenjiro Kohri; Sunao Yachiku; Takashi Kurita The purpose of this study is to examine the nutritional environment affecting calcium stone disease in Japan. The following results were obtained. Renal stone disease in the late 1970s increased by about three times...

.... Renal stone disease Nephrolithotomy, percutaneous Urologia Internationalis Point of Technique Urol Int 2003;71:143 145 DOI: 10.1159/000071835 Received: May 6, 2002 Accepted: October 1, 2002 Relook Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy: A Simple Technique to Re-Enter the Pelvicalyceal System Apul Goel Monish...

... been treated over a period of 35 months for renal stone disease by percutaneous nephrolithotomy, were evaluated. In 69 cases the single and in 84 cases the multiple pulse modes were used to fragment the stone intracorporeally using the pneumatic lithoclast. The 2 groups were similar with regard...