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11mm kidney stone,does it requires a surgery or can be cured with medicines?if so please suggest medicines.
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Probably not surgery: Extra-corporal shockwave lithotripsy, ESWL, does not involve any incision although performed under anesthesia or conscious sedation. Stone is too large to pass spontaneously & can not be cured with medication. U also need a metabolic work up with 24 hour quantitative & qualitative urine analysis to find out why you developed stone in first place & how to prevent recurrence.
Answered 8/19/2015
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