<p><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p><p> <strong>Purpose: </strong>This study is aimed to evaluate whether one shot dilatation technique is safe in patients with a history of open stone surgery, as it is in patients without previous open stone surgery.</p><p><strong>Materials And Methods: </strong>Between January 2007-February 2015, 82 patients who underwent PNL surgery with one shot dilation technique and having previously had open stone surgery were retrospectively reviewed and evaluated under group 1. Again, 82 patients were selected randomly among patients who had PNL with one shot dilation technique but having no history of open renal surgery and these are denominated as group 2. Age, gender, type of kidney stone , duration of surgery, radiation exposure time and whether there was any bleeding requiring perioperative and postoperative transfusion or not were noted for each patient .</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The stone-free rates, operation and fluoroscopy time , peroperative and postoperative complication rates were similar in two groups (p>0.05).</p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our experience indicated that the PNL with one shot dilation technique is a reliable method in patients with a history of open stone surgery.
Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy With One Shot Dilatıon Method: Is It Safe In Patients Who Had Open Surgery Before