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, those painful crystalline formations in your urinary system, might soon be defeated by an innovative medical technique combining two ultrasound technologies. This approach ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kidney stones are hard mineral deposits that form inside the kidneys due to imbalance in water salts and other substances Read this article to know why the cases of kidney stones spike in winter ...