What is the department for kidney stones?

Check kidney stones should be hanging regular public hospital urology, which belongs to a surgical disease, urinary stone treatment may require oral medication or extracorporeal ultrasonic lithotripsy, and even some patients need to undergo surgery to remove the stone, these treatments are in the urology department, so this disease is the need to hang the urology outpatient clinic. Diagnosis of this disease is generally based on imaging methods, ordinary X-ray can be very good detection of urinary stones. However, for uric acid stones, which may not be well visualized under X-ray, color ultrasound can be used as an alternative examination method, which can accurately observe the number, size, shape, location and other information of the stones.