Presentation
Right flank and lower abdominal pain. Microhaematuria, history of ESWL for right staghorn calculus.
Patient Data
Age: 65 years
Gender: Female
From the case:
Steinstrasse
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Right nephrolithiasis and multiple stone fragments lined up in the distal ureter.
Case Discussion
The term "steinstrasse", literally meaning stone street, was coined by Egbert Schmiedt and Christian Chaussy, the German pioneers of ESWL, in the early 1980s.