Patients experience debilitating pain when kidney stones become stuck in the urinary tract. A relatively new ultrasound probe procedure has the highest success rate for breaking down kidney stones ...

Kidney stones (called renal calculi) develop when your urine ... are often discovered incidentally during an abdominal X-ray or ultrasound. Diarrhea can also sometimes occur with a kidney ...

Stents may also relieve acute pain from a stone, enable any infection to drain, and allow antibiotic treatment before surgery. Shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) is a procedure that uses ultrasound energy ...

In adults, a ≥10 mm difference in the lengths of the right and left kidneys on ultrasound ... had a right kidney that was longer than the left. An abnormality (differential renal function ...

Kidney stones, also called renal calculi or nephrolithiasis ... The stone may only be discovered during an incidental abdominal X-ray or ultrasound. Although rare, pressure from a distended ...

In addition certain renal diseases require a biopsy ... direct visualization of the cyst and/or kidney is provided, and tissue is obtained for more detailed evaluation by the pathologist. In addition, ...