Toward improved endoscopic examination of urinary stones: a concordance study between endoscopic digital pictures vs microscopy.
BJU Int
; 128(3): 319-330, 2021 09.
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| ID: mdl-33263948
OBJECTIVE: To improve endoscopic recognition of the most frequently encountered urinary stone morphologies for a better aetiological approach in lithiasis by urologists. MATERIALS AND METHODS: An expert urologist intraoperatively and prospectively (between June 2015 and June 2018) examined the surface, the section, and the nucleus of all encountered kidney stones. Fragmented stones were subsequently analysed by a biologist based on both microscopic morphological (i.e. binocular magnifying glass) and infrared (i.e. Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy) examinations (microscopists were blinded to the endoscopic data). Morphological criteria were collected and classified for the endoscopic and microscopic studies. The Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test was used to detect differences between the endoscopic and microscopic diagnoses. A diagnosis for a given urinary stone was considered 'confirmed' for a non-statistically significant difference. RESULTS: A total of 399 urinary stones were included in this study: 51.4% of the stones had only one morphological type, while 48.6% were mixed stones (41% had at least two morphologies and 7.6% had three morphologies). The overall matching rate was 81.6%. Diagnostics were confirmed for the following morphologies: whewellite (Ia or Ib), weddellite (IIa or IIb), uric acid (IIIa or IIIb), carbapatite-struvite association (IVb), and brushite (IVd). CONCLUSIONS: Our preliminary study demonstrates the feasibility of using endoscopic morphology for the most frequently encountered urinary stones and didactic boards of confirmed endoscopic images are provided. The present study constitutes the first step toward endoscopic stone recognition, which is essential in lithiasis. We provide didactic boards of confirmed endoscopic images that pave the way for automatic computer-aided in situ recognition.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Cálculos Renales
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Ureteroscopía
Tipo de estudio:
Observational_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Humans
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En
Revista:
BJU Int
Asunto de la revista:
UROLOGIA
Año:
2021
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Article
País de afiliación:
Francia
Pais de publicación:
Reino Unido