Open AccessClinical comparison of the efficiency and security of balloon dilators versus fascial dilators in percutaneous nephrolithotripsy (PCNL)
Author(s) -
Lingbo Yang,
Shuaiqi Lu,
Xingtao Han,
Pengtao Wei,
Jinhui Yang,
Tongtong Hao
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
pakistan journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1682-024X
pISSN - 1681-715X
DOI - 10.12669/pjms.323.9281
Subject(s) - medicine , surgery , percutaneous , balloon , blood transfusion , retrospective cohort study , body mass index , balloon dilatation
To compare the efficiency and security of the balloon dilators versus fascial dilators in percutaneous nephrolithotripsy (PCNL), We compared the difference of intraoperative and postoperative parameters of patients using these two different methods of expansion and having no significant statistic differences in peroperative parameters.