To investigate the best treatment option for large upper ureteral stone,percutaneous nephrolithotomy or laparoscopic ureterolithotomy.We searched three key word of upper ureteral stone,laparoscopic ureterolithotomy,pe...To investigate the best treatment option for large upper ureteral stone,percutaneous nephrolithotomy or laparoscopic ureterolithotomy.We searched three key word of upper ureteral stone,laparoscopic ureterolithotomy,percutaneous nephrolithotomy in PubM ed,Scopus and Ebsco.We found approximately twenty suitable articles about this subject since January 1980 until January2014.All articles studies and reviewed meticulously and brief review of these articles was written and some Ideas of experts was added.In many studies,it is suggested that success rate and complications of laparoscopic ureterolithotomy and percutaneous nephrolithotomy are the same,but percutaneous nephrolithotomy has less hospital stay time,duration of surgery and it is more cost effective.Overall it seems that percutaneous nephrolithotomy for treatment of upper ureteral stones is preferable rather than laparoscopic展开更多
文摘To investigate the best treatment option for large upper ureteral stone,percutaneous nephrolithotomy or laparoscopic ureterolithotomy.We searched three key word of upper ureteral stone,laparoscopic ureterolithotomy,percutaneous nephrolithotomy in PubM ed,Scopus and Ebsco.We found approximately twenty suitable articles about this subject since January 1980 until January2014.All articles studies and reviewed meticulously and brief review of these articles was written and some Ideas of experts was added.In many studies,it is suggested that success rate and complications of laparoscopic ureterolithotomy and percutaneous nephrolithotomy are the same,but percutaneous nephrolithotomy has less hospital stay time,duration of surgery and it is more cost effective.Overall it seems that percutaneous nephrolithotomy for treatment of upper ureteral stones is preferable rather than laparoscopic
