...Ketan Mehra; Parameshwar Satpathy; Ankur Joshi; Ramanitharan Manikandan Background: Renal calculi in chronic kidney disease (CKD) are not uncommon. Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) is a standard treatment for large renal calculi. PCNL in CKD has been a subject of debate as it may improve...

...Kun Wang; Peijin Zhang; Xianlin Xu; Min Fan Objective: To assess the safety and efficacy of ultrasonographic vs. fluoroscopic access for percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL). Methods: Medline (PubMed), Embase, Ovid, Cochrane, and the Chinese Biomedical Literature databases were searched to identify...

...Tarik Amer; Kamran Ahmed; Matthew Bultitude; Shahid Khan; Pardeep Kumar; Antonella De Rosa; Mohammed Shamim Khan; Nicholas Hegarty Objective: This article systematically analyses comparative studies to evaluate the efficacy and safety of tubeless percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) versus standard...

...Hiroshi Nakamura; Masaya Takao; Masamichi Hayakawa; Shiro Baba Intraoperative Doppler flowmetry was used for localization of the intrarenal arteries. To reduce blood loss during nephrolithotomy, a neodymium-yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) laser beam was used clinically as a cutting instrument...

...Masanori Iguchi; Takeshi Matsuura; Takahiro Akiyama; Sunao Yachiku; Takashi Kurita A newly devised technique for nephrolithotomy was applied in 29 patients with renal calculi, and good results were obtained. The principle of this new approach is the method of suturing the renal pelvis and the renal...

... (renal) stones Renal bisection Renal bivalve Nephrotomy Nephrolithotomy Complete longitudinal Nephrolithotomy Intraoperative X-ray Intrasinusal pyelolithotomy Rumel tourniquet ...

...Cengiz Girgin; Akif Sezer; Oğuz Şahin; Mehmet Öder; Çetin Dinçel We report a case of giant renal calculus 230×140 mm in size and weighing 1,350 g in a solitary functioning kidney treated by nephrolithotomy. A 47-year-old man presented with right lumbar pain, abdominal mass and microscopic hematuria...

... been treated over a period of 35 months for renal stone disease by percutaneous nephrolithotomy, were evaluated. In 69 cases the single and in 84 cases the multiple pulse modes were used to fragment the stone intracorporeally using the pneumatic lithoclast. The 2 groups were similar with regard...

... anatrophic nephrolithotomy was performed after stabilization of the patient. There were no complications during the recovery period. The case reported here is significant not only because it is the 7th biggest and the heaviest stone in the literature but also because it is the first giant stone reported...