title: Percutaneous nephrolithotomy in pediatric age group: Assessment of effectiveness and complications.
abstract: Management of kidney stone disease in pediatric population is a challenging condition in urology practice. While the incidence of kidney stone is increasing in those group, technological innovations have conrtibuted to the development of minimally invasive treatment of urinary stone disease such as mini-percutenous nephrolitotomy (mini-PCNL), micro-PCNL, ultra mini-PCNL. In this review we tried to evaluate the effect of new teratment techniques on pediatric kidney stones.
authors.affiliation: Ender Ozden, Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Ondokuz Mayis University, 55210 Samsun, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ender
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ozden
authors.affiliation: Ender Ozden, Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Ondokuz Mayis University, 55210 Samsun, Turkey.
authors.forename: Mehmet Necmettin
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Mercimek
keywords: Kidney stone; Pediatric; Percutaneous nephrolithotomy; Urolithiasis