A Clinical Observation on Surgery of Renal Stones / 대한비뇨기과학회지

ABSTRACT

Surgery of renal lithiasis has progressed considerably during the past 20 years. The first of many advances was an intrasinusal approach to the renal pelvis, which has allowed removal of calculi through the collecting system without causing damage to the renal parenchyma or its vessels. The second was substitution of the longitudinal pyelotomy with a transverse pyelotomy. We present a surgical observation on 43 cases of renal stones during the period from March, 1981 to April, 1983 on the Department of Urology of Masan Korea hospital, in Masan. Pyelolithotomy was performed in 19 patients, nephrectomy in 12, extended pyelolithotomy in 11 and partial nephrectomy in one patient.