Department Internal medicine

Nephrolithiasis

Nephrolithiasis History The first description of a cyst stone excreted with urine was made by Wollaston in 1810 (Hoffmann 2014). In 1817 Marcet was the first to chemically examine a kidney stone. This consisted of pure xanthine (Opitz 1965). The extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy of the urinar...