Options: Treatment options may depend on location. Available options include ureteroscopy (using small camera scope to treat stone through urinary tube, no incisions), eswl (extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy - using shock energy to break up stones) and pcnl (percutaneous nephrolithotomy - tube into kidney to extract stone). Each option has pros/cons..Talk to urologist to choose best/successful option.
Answered 9/2/2015
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? symptoms: Treatment depends on symptoms, whether it is obstructing or not. Please check with your doctor/urologist/nephrologist.
Answered 9/28/2016
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Probable PNL: 2x1 CM stone is quite large and best managed by percuteous nephro-lithotripsy. This will involve having a tube placed in the kidney by urologist or interventional radiologist. Then nephroscope is passed thru tube and kidney is broken up by laser or lithoclst. Your stone is certainly to big for ureteroscopic lithotripsy and larger than recommendations for shockwave lithotripsy (most non-invasive).
Answered 5/28/2017
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