What is it about?
Kidney stones and laparoscopic plus endoscopic management
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Why is it important?
Staghorn kidney stones are difficult to treat. This combined technique shows good results and it represents an interesting minimally invasive approach
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Staghorn kidney stones are difficult to treat, and still represent a surgical challenge in urology. This combined technique shows good results in big staghorn calculi (> 6 cm of diameter), and it represents an interesting minimally invasive approach with encouraging stone free rate.
Dr Antonio Luigi Pastore
Sapienza University of Rome
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This page is a summary of: Combined laparoscopic pyelolithotomy and endoscopic pyelolithotripsy for staghorn calculi: long-term follow-up results from a case series, Therapeutic Advances in Urology, September 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1756287215607417.
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