Purpose: To assess the contemporary in-hospital management of octogenarians and nonagenarians with renal calculi.
Material And Methods: A multicentric retrospective evaluation of patients aged ≥ 80 years hospitalized with kidney stones between 01/2000 and 12/2019. Stone and patient related data were collected, including stone size and location, geriatric status and comorbidities.
Aim: To assess contemporary in-hospital management of octogenarians and nonagenarians with ureteral calculi.
Materials And Methods: Review of patients aged ≥80 years hospitalized due to ureteral calculi. Data was extracted from eight Austrian centers of urology.
Upper tract urothelial carcinomas (UTUCs) are infrequent neoplasms occurring in the pelvis renalis or the ureter with an incidence between 5% and 10% of all urothelial carcinomas. In addition, a synchronous bilateral appearance is extremely rare with a quantity of only 1.6% of all UTUCs.
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