Urolithiasis

                    Urinary system stone disease is a serious disease that can even lead to kidney failure. While patients can often pass small stones spontaneously or with the help of drug therapy, they need ultrasonic lithotripsy, which we call SWL or surgery for large stones. Stone can be treated with endoscopic methods (ureterorenoscopy ie flexible URS for kidney stones, ureteroscopy ie URS for ureteral stones or cystoscopic bladder stone surgery for bladder stones) wherever it is in the urinary system. Since all these endoscopic procedures are performed by entering the natural external urinary opening of the patients, regardless of whether they are men or women, even the slightest incision is not made on the patient. However, in patients with large kidney stones, we may need to perform the operation we call PNL. In this operation: An incision of about 3 cm is made on the back, under the guidance of USG and fluoroscopy, the kidney is entered using a device called nephroscope, and stones are broken by using ultrasonic or pneumatic stone crushing devices or laser. Today, there is almost no need for open surgery or laparoscopic surgery in terms of stone treatment (only very rarely for very large stones or in the presence of anomalies). Our patients are hosted in our hospital for an average of 1-3 days and then they are discharged.