Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy: Indications and Technique
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Percutaneous nephrolithotomy is widely accepted and effective treatment modality for renal stone disease. When compared with other surgical interventions such as open renal surgery, percutaneous nephrolithotomy has lower morbidity and postoperative patient discomfort, so percutaneous nephrolithotomy mostly replaced open surgery in most of the urology clinics in Turkey and worldwide. In this review it is aimed to discuss indications and limitations of percutaneous nephrolithotomy that mean the proper patient selection and also to discuss important points of surgical technique and devices for intrarenal lithotripsy and instruments for kidney drainage after the procudure that all will offer the physicians successfull outcome.
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[Percutaneous nephrolithotomy in supine decubitus. Valdivia's position].
OBJECTIVES The accidental puncture of the renal cavities and the performance of anterograde pyelogram by Goodwin in 1955 gave way to the beginning of modern endourology. The possibility to insert thick caliber catheters in the excretory system through the renal parenchyma had led to the current state of percutaneous surgery techniques in the treatment of urinary lithiasis. Percutaneous nephroli...
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