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I read this interesting surgical technique by Lu B et al. regarding the nephroscopic management of the giant infected pancreatic pseudocyst [1]. I compliment the authors for this very innovative technique, but I have very basic comments regarding this manuscript.
The title of the manuscript is misleading and probably wrong. The technique cannot be called as nephroscopy, as nephroscopy means looking inside a kidney by a telescope. Nephroscopy is an endoscopic technique for evaluation and management of calculi or other lesions inside the kidney [2]. What was done in the above-mentioned technique was pseudocyst-scopy. Yes, nephroscope and the dilatation techniques that are routinely used for a standard per-cutaneous nephroscopy were used here, but the procedure would be called as a “pseudocyst-scopy using a nephroscope” and not nephroscopy.
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Lu B, Jia Z, Li S, Cai Y, Yin J, Wang J (2021) Nephroscopic management of giant infected pancreatic pseudocyst after drainage. Indian J Surg 83:754–757. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12262-020-02483-6
Tran TY, Gupta M (2019) Rigid and flexible nephroscopy. Smith’s textbook of endourology, 4th edn. Wiley Blackwell, Oxford, pp 285–293
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Maheshwari, P.N. Is it Nephroscopy or Pseudocyst-Scopy?. Indian J Surg 84, 890 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12262-021-03075-8
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