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Natural History of Residual Stone Fragments Following PCNL

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Abstract

Since the introduction of minimally invasive procedures for managing renal stones, the presence of small residual fragments became an issue with debatable approaches.

Recently increasing body of literature uses the term clinically insignificant fragments to describe stones less than 4 mm that are not causing any obstruction nor infection.

We did a literature review of this subject and described our approach in managing residual stones after PCNL.

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Alomar, M.A., Mokhtar, A.A. (2020). Natural History of Residual Stone Fragments Following PCNL. In: Zeng, G., Sarica, K. (eds) Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0575-1_20

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