Here we present the case of a 78-year-old medically comorbid woman with an extremely large bladder stone burden treated by cystolithalopaxy performed using a Swiss LithoClast Trilogy Lithotripter (Boston Scientific, Marlborough, MA, USA) through a nephroscope traversing a transurethral Amplatz sheath.

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