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Abstract
This study was held on Minoufiya Urology Department including 120 patients in the period from August 2003 to August 2004 with renal stones needing intervention.
Fifty patients underwent ESWL, Fifty patients underwent open stone surgery and twenty patients underwent PNL.
Patients with stones <0.5 cm, uncontrollable bleeding disorders or medically unfit for surgery are excluded from this study.
All patients were subjected to the following:
detailing medical history, physical examination, laboratoryevaluation (complete blood picture serum creatinine liver function – liver enzymes, prothrmbine time and conc., complete urine analysis, radiological evaluation (K.U.B.,I.V.U. and U.S.)
Operative evaluation as operation time, intraoperative complications was done.
Postoperative evaluation in the form of stone free rate, hospital stay, postoperative complications if present transfusion rate if indicated is recorded.