A New Zealand experience of staghorn calculus surgery.
Sixty-one patients with staghorn calculi who have undergone surgery at the Auckland Department of Urology since 1972 have been reviewed. Maoris have been shown to have a higher disease incidence than Europeans. In those cases followed longer than one year true stone recurrences was 14%. A significant number of patients have developed obstruction in the pelviureteric region, and the reasons for this and possible preventive measures are discussed.
D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007669:Kidney Calculi / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D009392:Nephrectomy; D009520:New Zealand; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012008:Recurrence; D014517:Ureteral Obstruction / Q000209:etiology