Department Internal medicine

Nephrolithiasis

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