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Abstract: Kidney stones and tumors are among the most common and severe urological diseases across the globe. The success of clinical decision-making in these situations is heavily reliant on accurate ...

OMAHA, Neb. — A Nebraska woman who went to an Omaha emergency room for a ruptured appendix received a bigger surprise after a CT scan -- doctors discovered a kidney stone that weighed approximately a ...

A behavioral intervention designed to increase fluid intake for the prevention of kidney stone recurrence successfully boosted urine volume but did not significantly reduce stone recurrence over 2 ...

A systematic review of 31 studies found that diet changes like increasing fluid intake and following a diet low in salt and protein may help prevent recurrent nephrolithiasis, or kidney stones. In ...

The detection of kidney stones using medical pictures presents significant problems due to intricate anatomical differences and the potential for misdiagnosis. Conventional approaches are inadequate ...

As shown below, the inferred masks predicted by our segmentation model trained by the dataset appear similar to the ground truth masks. This dataset contains images of kidney stones with corresponding ...

In an unexpected finding, a UCLA-led team has discovered that bacteria are present inside the most common type of kidney stone, revealing a previously unrecognized component involved in their ...

Credit: Getty Images More than 370,000 insured patients in the United States underwent surgery for ureteral and kidney stones in 2019, highlighting the importance of the 2026 AUA guideline. The ...

Flexible ureteroscopy (FURS) has become a standard minimally invasive treatment for kidney stones. However, flexible ureteroscopy has advanced significantly; surgeons still rely on subjective visual ...