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What do you know about kidney stones growing on the outside of the kidney? my urologists have looked for this stone twice surgically and still can't find it; they have decided that it must have grown out through a small hole in my kidney. i have chronic f

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Biopsy: Must be an epiphytic growth.. Interventional radiologist can biopsy.

Answered 5/11/2016

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