[
    {
        "id": "osp-11698",
        "type": "article-journal",
        "title": "Keyhole Surgery of the Kidney at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Oman",
        "author": [
            {
                "family": "Al-Marhoon",
                "given": "Mohammed S."
            },
            {
                "family": "Mathew",
                "given": "Josephkunju"
            },
            {
                "family": "Hawraa",
                "given": ""
            }
        ],
        "URL": "https://omanscience.com/en/articles/keyhole-surgery-of-the-kidney-at-sultan-qaboos-university-hospital-oman",
        "language": "en",
        "issued": {
            "date-parts": [
                [
                    2025
                ]
            ]
        },
        "container-title": "Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal",
        "volume": "7",
        "issue": "2",
        "page": "117-122",
        "DOI": "10.18295/2075-0528.2652",
        "publisher": "Sultan Qaboos University",
        "ISSN": "2075-051X",
        "abstract": "Objectives: Percutaneous access surgery of the kidneys was introduced in Sultan Qaboos University Hospital (SQUH) in 1998. We are presenting our early experience in the first 3 patients operated on over an eight year period using the percutaneous approach. Methods: A retrospective review of 25 patients, who underwent percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) for the treatment of large renal stones and 6 patients who underwent endopyelotomy for the treatment of pelviureteric junction (PUJ) obstruction. Results: In the PCNL group complete stone clearance was achieved in 68% (17/25) patients and the complication rate was 28% (7/25). In the endopyelotomy group the success rate of relief of obstruction of PUJ measured by renogram and relief of symptoms was 83% (5/6 patients). Conclusion: Our early results of PCNL are promising and comparable to international results."
    }
]