Urologie pro praxi 2/2020
New trends in diagnostics and therapy of urinary stones – the role of CT examination
Diagnostics of urinary stones is an integral and everyday part of urologist´s activity. It requires essential cooperation with radiologist. CT enables not only the identification of the true cause of renal colic but it can also assess basic stone characteristic – size, number, location. Moreover, the CT scan can predict stone composition, its density, homogenity and predict the efficacy of the planned treatment. The aim of this article is to enlighten the basics of CT examination to ordinary urologist.
Keywords: urolithiasis, diagnostics, CT examination, radiation, therapy.
