Modern approaches to treatment of large and staghorn stones of anatomical and functional solitary kidney
Operative treatment in patients with large and staghorn urinary stones of anatomically or functional solitary kidney is one of the complicated problems in urology. Literature review shows that extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL) as monotherapy has low efficacy in patients with this form of urolithiasis and its role could be described as amplification of other modalities, for example, in the combination treatment with transurethral and percutaneous manipulations.