The management of kidney stones as suggested by Goeury-Duvivier
Bellinghieri, G.; Satta, E.; Savica, V.; Gembillo, G.; Salvo, A.; Buemi, M.; Santoro, D.; Goeury-Duvivier, J.-L.
Giornale Italiano di Nefrologia Organo Ufficiale Della Societa Italiana di Nefrologia 33(Suppl 66): 33.S66.20
2016
ISSN/ISBN: 1724-5990 PMID: 26913888 Document Number: 689848
The management of kidney stones has always been a big problem for doctors of all time. Goeury Duvivier in his masterpiece "Guide des malades atteints daffections de voie urinaires ou des organes de la gnration chez lhomme et chez la femme shows us the different kind of diseases which affects the urinary tract and in particular highlights the list of the main methods that during the history characterized the treatment of renal calculi. Duvivier gives us the descriptions of invasive innovative techniques of the time, the Taille, the Lithotripsy and Lithotomy and their negative effects or limits for each technique. He also describes the different kind of palliative methods used in the 19th century to treat renal lithiasis and the clinical case reports of the time.