Kidney Stone Disease Say NO to Stones!
This practical guide helps readers take charge of their health and explores the best ways to eliminate this painful disease. Kidney Stone Disease: Say NO to Stones! looks at the formation and prevention of the four major types of kidney stones, explo
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Kidney Stone Disease
David A. Schulsinger Editor
Kidney Stone Disease Say NO to Stones!
Editor David A. Schulsinger, MD Stony Brook School of Medicine Stony Brook, NY USA
ISBN 978-3-319-12104-8 ISBN 978-3-319-12105-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-12105-5 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
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Foreword I
About one person in ten will have a urological stone over their lifetime. Also about 60–70 % of those individuals will have recurrent stones! This well written, clearly articulated and comprehensive book about urolithiasis, urological stones, by an expert in the field, David Schulsinger, and his co-authors discusses all aspects of stone disease, directed to patients with this condition and their families. In my 40 years in the practice of urology there is no area that has changed as much as the management of patients with stone disease. When I began practice, most kidney and ureteral stones were removed by open, invasive, surgical procedures requiring incisions through several layers of muscles, often with the removal of a rib and incisions into the kidn
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