STUDY OF SPINAL ANAESTHESIA IN PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROLITHOTOMY (PCNL)

Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) in horse shoe kidneys.

OBJECTIVE To review our experience of PCNL in horse shoe kidneys. METHODS Between June 2001 and January 2005 we performed PCNL in 16 Horse shoe kidneys in 14 patients with calculi, 2 patients had bilateral calculi. Percutaneous puncture was made with patient in prone position. Their ages ranged between 4 to 52 years with a mean age of 26.3 years. Our mean stone burden was 820 mm2 (range 40-13...

PCNL (percutaneous nephrolithotomy): first year experience.

Focal neuropathies following percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) – preliminary study

INTRODUCTION Postoperative neurological complications in pelvic and renal surgery are a well-known clinical problem and their morbidities are important. We designed this study to determine prevalence and risk factors of such complications after percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) surgery. MATERIAL AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was performed during February and July 2011 on 68 PCNL cases...

Laparoscopic assisted percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) in ectopic pelvic kidney.

We report the case of a patient with pain and an abdominal palpable mass whose tests showed a right pelvic kidney with a 4-cm stone in the renal pelvis. We describe the successful management through laparoscopic assisted percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) in ectopic pelvic kidney, stressing that this method is a minimally invasive therapeutic option in such cases.

Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) in kidneys with fusion and rotation anomalies.

OBJECTIVES Fusion and rotation anomalies are among the most common anomalies of the kidneys especially the horseshoe kidneys that have abnormal mixtures of malrotation, ectopia and fusion. Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) in horseshoe kidney and malrotation kidney is challenging. We report PCNL in 10 horseshoe kidneys and 4 kidneys with congenital malrotation. MATERIAL AND METHOD PCNL was ...