- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Symbols and abbreviations
- Chapter 1 General principles of management of patients
- Chapter 2 Significance and preliminary investigation of urological symptoms and signs
- Chapter 3 Urological investigations
- Chapter 4 Bladder outlet obstruction
- Chapter 5 Urinary incontinence and female urology
- Chapter 6 Infections and inflammatory conditions
- Chapter 7 Urological neoplasia
- Chapter 8 Miscellaneous urological diseases of the kidney
- Chapter 9 Stone disease
- Chapter 10 Upper tract obstruction, loin pain, hydronephrosis
- Chapter 11 Trauma to the urinary tract and other urological emergencies
- Chapter 12 Infertility
- Chapter 13 Sexual health
- Chapter 14 Neuropathic bladder
- Chapter 15 Urological problems in pregnancy
- Chapter 16 Paediatric urology
- Chapter 17 Urological surgery and equipment
- Chapter 18 Basic science and renal transplant
- Chapter 19 Urological eponyms
- Index
(p. 437) Stone disease
- Chapter:
- (p. 437) Stone disease
- Author(s):
John Reynard
, Simon F Brewster
, Suzanne Biers
, and Naomi Laura Neal
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780198783480.003.0009
Significant changes in the acute medical management updates of ureteric stones have occurred since the last edition, following publication in 2015 of the large randomized controlled trial SUSPEND from the UK which suggests that medical expulsive therapy (MET) may not be of any benefit for ureteric stones. Other than this, renal and ureteric stone management remains essentially unchanged.
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- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Symbols and abbreviations
- Chapter 1 General principles of management of patients
- Chapter 2 Significance and preliminary investigation of urological symptoms and signs
- Chapter 3 Urological investigations
- Chapter 4 Bladder outlet obstruction
- Chapter 5 Urinary incontinence and female urology
- Chapter 6 Infections and inflammatory conditions
- Chapter 7 Urological neoplasia
- Chapter 8 Miscellaneous urological diseases of the kidney
- Chapter 9 Stone disease
- Chapter 10 Upper tract obstruction, loin pain, hydronephrosis
- Chapter 11 Trauma to the urinary tract and other urological emergencies
- Chapter 12 Infertility
- Chapter 13 Sexual health
- Chapter 14 Neuropathic bladder
- Chapter 15 Urological problems in pregnancy
- Chapter 16 Paediatric urology
- Chapter 17 Urological surgery and equipment
- Chapter 18 Basic science and renal transplant
- Chapter 19 Urological eponyms
- Index