PCNL, Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy Articles

To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of bilateral same-session flexible ureterorenoscopy (f-URS) in the treatment of bilateral renal and/or ureteric stone disease.

From October 2007 to December 2015, 62 patients who had undergone bilateral, same-session f-URS were included in the study.

To evaluate the influence of fellowship training in endourology on different endourological procedures in a single institution.

The operative records of endourological and open surgeries were reviewed.

To investigate the effect of stone fragmentation on late stone recurrence by comparing the outcome of extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL) and non-fragmenting percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL), and to investigate factors contributing to recurrent calculi.

To evaluate the recent developments in robotic urological surgery, as the introduction of robotic technology has overcome many of the difficulties of pure laparoscopic surgery enabling surgeons to perform complex minimally invasive procedures with a shorter learning curve.

To assess the implications of different nephrolithometry scoring systems (NLSS) on clinical practice of endourologists to predict stone-free status (SFS) after percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL).

A web-based survey was sent to members of the Endourological Society.

To provide a comprehensive review of robot-assisted surgery in urolithiasis and to consider the future prospects of robotic approaches in stone surgery.

We performed a systematic PubMed© literature search using predefined Medical Subject Headings search terms to identify PubMed-listed clinical research studies on robotic stone surgery.

Compare the surgical outcomes, safety, stone free rate, hospital stay, and complication of prone and supine PCNL in case of complex renal stone.

This is an observational study conducted in our institute, it consist of 120 patients over the period of 2 years from July 2021 to June 2023, all the patients were divided into two groups: 60 patients underwent modified supine percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) and remaining 60 patients underwent standard prone PCNL.