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I have an 8mm stone in my upper left kidney will it pass?
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Here are some ...: An 8-mm stone at the upper calyx of left kidney may stay there "forever" to grow its size. If it detaches from its current site and drops down to the ureter, its odd to spontaneous passage would be very low -- impossible. Roughly, the odd to pass a stone of
Answered 8/30/2018
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Not likely: Too big and it will grow, unless you can get it to fragment
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