Renal and ureteral stones are commonly seen in clinical practice. The classical symptoms presented by patients with renal stones are renal colic and hematuria. Some patients may be asymptomatic or have atypical symptoms such as vague abdominal pain, acute abdominal or flank pain, nausea, urinary urgency or frequency, difficulty in urinating, penile pain, or testicular pain.1 Clinicians need to be alert to decide upon a diagnostic approach considering the possibility of nephrolithiasis and its consequences.2 Furthermore, stone formation is frequently associated with other diseases of affluence such as hypertension, osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome, and insulin resistance.3 This is changing the perspective of nephrolithiasis from an isolated disorder to a systemic disease that justifies further research in understanding the underlying mechanisms and elaborating diagnostictherapeutic options.