Percutaneous Management of Large Renal Stones in a Private Practice Community Setting

Abstract

The high success rate of our single, private practice experience is comparable to that of major academic centers. We believe PCNL can be safely and effectively performed in the private practice setting by urologists trained in the procedure.

Supine versus prone position in percutaneous nephrolithotomy for kidney calculi: a meta-analysis

“…There were 8 papers [3,[8][9][10][11][12][13][14] of supine group and 19 papers [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] of prone group. Because two studies [15,26] of prone position and one study [3] of supine did not describe the stone-free rate and another one study [33] of prone group did not describe the results of bleeding rate, these data were excluded when statistical analysis of corresponding results.…”

Minimizing complications in endourological surgery

“…With advances in the technique, blood transfusion rates have decrease from 6.9% in early series to 2% in contemporary literature [7,12,38,39]. Other risk factors include upper pole access, solitary kidney, staghorn calculus and an inexperienced surgeon [40].…”