Steinstrasse

Case contributed by Roberto Schubert
Diagnosis certain

Presentation

Right flank and lower abdominal pain. Microhaematuria, history of ESWL for right staghorn calculus.

Patient Data

Age: 65 years
Gender: Female
ct

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.

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