Clinical Professor of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
Urology
Dr. Stephen P. Dretler, MD
Stephen Dretler is an expert in the field of Urology. He went to Tufts University School of Medicine. Tufts University School of Medicine is ranked 49 in research and 52 in primary care medicine He received awards:"Super Doctor". Stephen Dretler is a published doctor and has 98 publications published. The lastest was: 'The effect of calprotectin on the nucleation and growth of struvite crystals as assayed by light microscopy in real-time.'
Publications
- The effect of delayed percutaneous nephrolithotomy on the risk of bacteremia and sepsis in patients with neuromuscular disorders.
- Ureteroscopic treatment of patients with small, painful, non-obstructing renal Stones: the small stone syndrome.
- Words of wisdom. Re: Ureteroscopic treatment of patients with small, painful, non-obstructing renal Stones: the small stone syndrome.
- High Dietary Magnesium Intake Decreases Hyperoxaluria in Patients With Nephrolithiasis.
- Abnormalities of 24-Hour Urine Composition in First-time and Recurrent Stone-formers.
- Relationship Between Glomerular Filtration Rate and 24-Hour Urine Composition in Patients With Nephrolithiasis.
- Effect of Socioeconomic Status on 24-Hour Urine Composition in Patients With Nephrolithiasis.
- Computerized tomography magnified bone windows are superior to standard soft tissue windows for accurate measurement of stone size: an in vitro and clinical study.
- Differences in computed tomography density of the renal papillae of stone formers and non-stone-formers: a pilot study.
- Differences in stone size and ureteral dilation between obstructing proximal and distal ureteral calculi.
- Oxalobacter formigenes may reduce the risk of calcium oxalate Kidney stones.
- GenitoUrinary imaging with noncontrast computerized tomography--are we missing duplex ureters?
- "Blind coning"--using the Stone Cone for removal of intramural ureteral calculi.
- Prevention of retrograde stone migration during ureteroscopy.
- Distinguishing stent from stone: use of bone windows.
- Maximizing ureteroscope deflection: "play it straight".
- Stone fragility--a new therapeutic distinction.
- A modified algorithm for the management of ureteral calculi: 100 consecutive cases.
- Significant renal hemorrhage following extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy: imaging and clinical features.
- Microbial examination of Kidney lithotripter tub water and epidural anesthesia catheters.
- An algorithm for the management of ureteral calculi.
- Pulsed dye laser fragmentation of ureteral calculi: initial clinical experience.
- Ureteroscopy: the initial experience.
- Managing carcinoma of the bladder.
- Diagnosis and treatment of colovesical fistula.
- The roentgenographic diagnosis of female urethral diverticula.
- The value of pelvic lymphadenectomy in the surgical treatment of bladder Cancer.
- The pathogenesis of Urinary tract calculi occurring after ileal conduit diversion. I. Clinical study. II. Conduit study. 3. Prevention.
- Urinary tract reconstruction following ileal conduit diversion.
- Urinary tract calculi and ileal conduit diversion.
- The occurrence of empyema cystis: management of the bladder to be defunctionalized.
- The physiologic approach to renal tubular acidosis.
- Extrarenal calyces in the ectopic Kidney.
- Bilateral ureteroureterostomy after ileal conduit diversion.
- The anatomic, radiologic and clinical characteristics of the pelvic Kidney: an analysis of 86 cases.
- Percutaneous chemolysis of renal calculi.
- Percutaneous dissolution of renal calculi.
- Computed tomographic analysis of Urinary calculi.
- Percutaneous catheter dissolution of cystine calculi.
- Primary dissolution therapy of struvite calculi.
- Role of abdominal computed tomography in evaluating left upper quadrant masses.
- Preoperative irradiation, lymphadenectomy and 125iodine implant for patients with localized prostatic carcinoma: a correlation of implant dosimetry with clinical results.
- Identification of the calcium-binding protein calgranulin in the matrix of struvite Stones.
- Stones.
- Ureteroscopic fragmentation followed by extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy: a treatment alternative for selected large or staghorn calculi.
- Special article: calculus breakability--fragility and durility.
- Nephrolithiasis Clinical Guidelines Panel summary report on the management of staghorn calculi. The American Urological Association Nephrolithiasis Clinical Guidelines...
- Stone granuloma: a cause of ureteral stricture.
- Review: urolithiasis--electrohydraulic and laser lithotripsy.
- The electromechanical impactor: a new device for intracorporeal stone fragmentation.
- The electromechanical impactor: the results of design modifications.
- Clinical experience with electromechanical impactor.
- Calcium oxalate stone morphology: fine tuning our therapeutic distinctions.
- Laparoscopic pyelolithotomy in an ectopic Kidney.
- Intracorporeal lithotripsy. Instrumentation and development.
- Ureterorenoscopic approach to the symptomatic caliceal diverticulum.
- Ureteral Stones Clinical Guidelines Panel summary report on the management of ureteral calculi. The American Urological Association.
- Intrarenal pseudoaneurysm following ureterorenoscopy and electrohydraulic lithotripsy.
- The effect of calprotectin on the nucleation and growth of struvite crystals as assayed by light microscopy in real-time.
- The physiologic approach to the medical management of stone disease.
- How the electromechanical stone impactor works.
- Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy and percutaneous nephrostolithotomy for Urinary calculi: comparison of immediate and long-term effects.
- Retrograde renoscopic fragmentation of moderate-size (1.5-3.0-cm) renal cystine Stones.
- Helical CT and ureteral colic.
- Ureteroscopy for proximal ureteral calculi: prevention of stone migration.
- CT and stone fragility.
- The stone cone: a new generation of basketry.
- Report of the United States cooperative study of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy.
- Comparison of intravenous and intravesical administration of chloro-aluminum sulfonated phthalocyanine for photodynamic treatment in a rat bladder Cancer model.
- Use of the Stone Cone for prevention of calculus retropulsion during holmium:YAG laser lithotripsy: case series and review of the literature.
- Ureteroscopy for the management of stone disease.
- Staged ureterocolocolostomy Urinary diversion.
- Autosuturing device in intestinal Urinary conduits.
- Renal-stone dissolution via percutaneous nephrostomy.
- Diagnosis and treatment of a Urinary leak after ureteroileal conduit for diversion.
- Squamous carcinoma of the bladder: treatment by radical cystectomy.
- Control of massive prostatic bleeding with angiographic techniques.
- The eradication of intraurethral condyloma acuminata with 5 per cent 5-fluorouracil cream.
- Ileal conduit parastomal hernias.
- Clinical experience with high power (140 mj.), large fiber (320 micron) pulsed dye laser lithotripsy.
- Conversion of the electrohydraulic electrode to an electromechanical stone impactor: basic studies and a case report.
- Management of the impacted ureteral calculus.
- An evaluation of ureteral laser lithotripsy: 225 consecutive patients.
- Ureteral stone disease. Options for management.
- Endourological experience with cystine calculi and a treatment algorithm.
- Effects of shielded or unshielded laser and electrohydraulic lithotripsy on rabbit bladder.
- Acoustic and plasma-guided laser angioplasty.
- Semirigid ureteroscopy: a new genre.
- Acoustic and plasma guided lasertripsy (APGL) of Urinary calculi.
- Plasma shield lasertripsy: in vitro studies.
- Cystine calculi--rough and smooth: a new clinical distinction.
- The pulsed dye laser for fragmenting Urinary calculi.
- An assessment of the pulsed dye laser for fragmenting calculi in the pig ureter.
- Laser lithotripsy: a review of 20 years of research and clinical applications.
- Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy of caliceal diverticula calculi.
- Extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy: slam-bang effects, silent side effects?
- Further evidence that renal oncocytoma has malignant potential.
Schools
Tufts University School Of Medicine
University Hosps
Massachusetts General Hospital
Conditions Treated
- Kidney Stones
- Prostate Cancer
- Urinary Stones
- Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)
Doctors Specialties
- Urology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Super Doctor
Education
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Massachusetts General Hospital -
Case Western Reserve University - University Hospitals -
Tufts University School of Medicine
Hospital
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Massachusetts General Hospital
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