Urinary stones are one of the most common disorders of the urinary tract and many times, the most painful. Pain from urinary stone has sometimes been described as the worst pain that can be experienced by a man.

We can simply group urinary stones therefore into:

1.    Kidney stone and the various names given to it on it’s way out of the urinary system.
2.    Bladder stone

Most urinary stones originate from the kidney. From the kidneys it passes through the ureters that are tubes linking the kidneys to the bladder and through the bladder out of the body without any intervention.

Stone that cause severe recurrent symptoms or other complications may be treated by various techniques, most of which do not involve major surgery.

Bladder stone is a special group of urinary stone that is formed either primarily in the bladder or was formed in the kidney but was arrested at the bladder on its way out. Here in the bladder it continues to grow.

The cause for bladder stones and its treatment are different from kidney stones.