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A team from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), belonging to the Research Institute for Molecular Imaging Technologies (I3M), has developed, ...

Laser lithotripsy devices, which fragment kidney stones into smaller pieces, make them easier to pass or remove through minimally invasive procedures, thus increasing in demand. Get Your Free ...

whether it be in the ureter or the kidney, or sometimes even in the bladder. And then we would break that stone up, if need be, usually with a laser, and then pick out the individual pieces," he says.

This procedure is often used for kidney stones larger than 2 cm. With latest advances even this procedure is carried out using miniaturized scopes and laser (Mini-perc) • Extracorporeal Shock ...