Staghorn Calculi

Hippocrates (460–375 BC) specifically mentions pain starting in the kidney or kidney region and radiating to the testicle and to the presence of kidney stones. Riolan, in the first half of the seventeenth century is, according to Legueu, the first writer to speak of renal calculi in a precise manner. He recognized their coral-like form and was aware of their position in the ureter, the pelvis and the calices ¹ . Large coral-like stones were also called branched or staghorn calculi ² (Figure 1). Figure 1 ‘Huge stag-horn calculus, completely filling pelvis and calices.’ Reprinted from Young and Waters (1928)<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref84_2"> ² </xref>. Urinary lithiasis. In <italic>Urological Roentgenology,</italic> published by Paul Hoeber, New York https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781003076568/34c29fd5-5662-4e8f-b58c-badd7fa5d724/content/fig84_1_B.jpg"/>