Editorial Comment on: “Contralateral Coupling During Extracorporeal Shockwave Lithotripsy for Stones in Ectopic Kidney: Is It Feasible?” by Fawzy et al.
Urolithiasis is one of the most frequent disease in the population and it represents one of the most frequent causes of access to emergency department. In addition. congenital anomalies occur more often in the kidney than in any other organ and the association of both renal abnormalities and stones is of clinical relevance. In this report, we discuss a case of a women with pelvic ectopic kidney affected by a large pyelic stone treated with ESWL (Extracorporeal Shockwave Lithotripsy).
Editorial Comment from Dr Sato to Extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy for renal stones in pediatric patients: A multivariate analysis model for estimating the stone-free probability
