This is a rather large name: extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. The extracorporeal means from outside the body (no surgery) plus is it done using sound (shock ) waves and the last part (litho-) means stone while the ending means to crush or to break up.
It is called Lithopaxy
Lithotripsy is a general term meaning stone crushing, and can be applied to the destruction of both kidney stones and gallstones.
Do you mean nephrolithotomy? Well nephrolithotomy is a surgical procedure that removes kidney stones.
Kidney Stones can not be helped, they can be treated by either breaking them down and doing number 2 the small stones or surgical operations.
Nephroureterectomy is surgical removal of the kidney and its ureter.
An incision into the the renal pelvis and kidney in order to remove stones. Nephr/o/pyel/o/lith/o/tomy nephr/o- kidney pyel/o-renal pelvis lith/o- stones -tomy- surgical incision
It depends on how you crush it. If using ultrasound from outside the body, the procedure is called ESWL - extracorporeal sound wave lithotripsy . The machine used to perform this procedure is called a Lithotriptor. +++ It doesn't "crush" the calculus, but cause it to disintegrate by cavitation induced by extremely high frequency sound-waves - basically they shake it to bits.
The most common treatment for kidney stones is Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. The doctor sends shock waves through the body to break up the kidney stones. These smaller pieces are easy to pass through the urinary tract. This procedure is non surgical so you would not have a long recovery period.
the surgical fixation of a floating kidney
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