“…First, although the widespread use of shockwave lithotripsy as the Wrst-choice treatment is accepted for a variety of urological clinics [3,8,12], we believe that joint shock wave action and chemolytic irrigation [4,6,7] should provide much more rapid removal of COM and especially, COM + COD stones from the human urinary tract. Second, for some patients, installation of nephrostomic catheters or stents into a kidney is required [6,12,14]. It gives additional possibility to destroy calcium oxalate concrements by irrigating the kidney interior with the chemolytic solutions proposed.…”