Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEU) may improve doctors’ ability to distinguish potentially dangerous renal tumors from relatively benign or indolent ones, according to a pilot study. Used with other ...

About 50% of people who undergo surgery for kidney stones still have small fragments unremoved, and roughly 25% may need another procedure within five years to remove these now larger fragments (1 ...

About one in 11 Americans will experience the discomfort of a kidney stone in their lifetime. While some might think of these pesky mineral clumps as earthly inconveniences, they’re a problem up in ...

A noninvasive ultrasound technique is capable of quickly pulverizing kidney stones, an early study shows -- in what researchers call a first step toward a simpler, anesthesia-free treatment for the ...

New York: A simple ultrasound technique can be used to move, reposition or break up kidney stones, all while the patient is awake, a new study has revealed. The technique combines the use of two ...

Almost one in 10 people will someday experience a kidney stone, which creates what is described as the most intense pain imaginable. This increasingly common condition leads to hundreds of thousands ...

A new technique which combines the use of two ultrasound technologies may offer an option to move kidney stones out of the ureter with minimal pain and no anesthesia, according to a new feasibility ...

A technique that blasts kidney stones with ultrasound waves may offer a noninvasive treatment option for the painful condition, according to the first human study, published in The Journal of Urology.

A South Korean research team has successfully advanced an ultrasound imaging technology that can produce 3D blood flow images ...

Radiologic techniques can be used to assess gross renal morphology, but morphological changes at this level show poor correlation with renal function and the changes over time are often nonspecific ...

Renal cell carcinomas are one of the most common types of cancer. In order to preserve its wide range of functions, every effort is made not to remove the entire kidney, but rather just a portion of ...