Download or read book Urinary Tract Stone Disease written by Nagaraja P. Rao and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urinary stone disease constitutes more than a quarter of urologists’ workload in the Western countries and is more than half in the Middle-East and Central Asian countries. The surgical management of stone disease has changed considerably in the last five years and our understanding of mechanism of stone disease has improved with some old concepts discarded and newer theories gaining ground. Covering the entire spectrum of urinary stone disease and with contributions of more than fifty internationally recognised experts, this exhaustive and complex reference work will be invaluable to all urologists, nephrologists and non-medical scientists.