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The (soon forgotten) art of open stone surgery: to train or not to train?
Noor N P Buchholz1, Andrew Hitchings, Stephanos Albanis
1Department of Urology, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK. nielspeter@yahoo.com
Abstract:
To date, open stone surgery is now performed in a very limited number of selected cases. A review of our own cases revealed that open surgery constituted 1% of all procedures. These procedures were mostly ablative, or operations to deal with complications of failed minimally invasive therapies. Given two continuing trends towards sub-specialisation in urology on the one hand, and minimally invasive therapy on the other, the question arises whether and how sub-specialised stone surgeons should and can learn open stone surgery. Is it merely a lost art not to be bothered with, or is it something worthwhile preserving? This article discusses the pros and cons of the argument and suggests centralisation of complex stone cases as a possible way out of the dilemma.
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