Laparoscopic trans-peritoneal pyelolithotomy in a pelvic kidney.

Urinary lithiasis is one of the most common and the oldest known afflictions of the urinary tract. The management of renal stones has undergone radical changes in recent years, the latest being the minimally invasive procedures like extra-corporeal shock wave lithotripsy and percutaneous nephrolithotomy, making the open surgical procedures relatively obsolete. However, there are situations where the above-mentioned minimally invasive procedures prove to be lacking in achieving the cure; laparoscopic pyelolithotomy caters to such group of patients, e.

Aspiration versus excision: a single center experience of forty-seven patients with brain abscess over 10 years.

The efficacies of two different surgical approaches, aspiration and excision, were investigated for the management of large solitary encapsulated pyogenic brain abscess located in superficial non-eloquent areas, and the impact on length of hospital stay, duration of postoperative antibiotic use, improvement in neurological status, and morbidity and mortality were compared. This retrospective study at Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences included 47 patients with pyogenic brain abscess from a total of 114 patients evaluated in the Department of Neurosurgery over a period of 10 years from October 2001 to October 2011. Comparisons were made between aspiration and excision in terms of duration of antibiotic use, length of hospital stay, and overall treatment cost.