Published online Nov 24, 2014. doi: 10.5410/wjcu.v3.i3.336
Revised: August 29, 2014
Accepted: October 1, 2014
Published online: November 24, 2014
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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 PubMed, Scopus and Ebsco. We found approximately twenty suitable articles about this subject since January 1980 until January 2014. 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 ureterolitothomy
Core tip: It’s an honor to write a prestigious editing board; there is a review article study to compare between percutaneous nephrolithotomy and laparoscopic ureterolithotomy for treatment of large upper ureteral stones. These two procedures are different in many aspects and it’s not clearly defined that which one is preferred option.