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01-02-2013 | Letter to the Editor

Open surgery is dead, long live endourology: is it always true? (Re: comparative analyses of percutaneous nephrolithotomy versus open surgery in pediatric urinary stone disease)

Authors: Berkan Resorlu, Murat Tolga Gulpinar, Alpaslan Akbas

Published in: Pediatric Surgery International | Issue 2/2013

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We read with great interest the recent article by Bayrak et al. [1] on the comparative study of open surgery and percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PNL) for the management of pediatric kidney stones. In this article, authors compared the groups according to the stone surface area, stone-free rates, hospitalization time, blood transfusion rates and the D-J implantation rates. They concluded that PNL supersedes open surgery in terms of the use of advanced instruments and technological developments for modern pediatric surgery. …

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Title: Open surgery is dead, long live endourology: is it always true? (Re: comparative analyses of percutaneous nephrolithotomy versus open surgery in pediatric urinary stone disease)
Authors: Berkan Resorlu
Murat Tolga Gulpinar
Alpaslan Akbas
Publication date: 01-02-2013
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Pediatric Surgery International / Issue 2/2013
Print ISSN: 0179-0358
Electronic ISSN: 1437-9813
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00383-012-3218-z

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