A New Zealand experience of staghorn calculus surgery

Sixty-one patients with staghorn calculi who have undergone surgery at the Auckland Department of Urology since 1972 have been reviewed. Maoris have been shown to have a higher disease incidence than Europeans. In those cases followed longer than one year true stone recurrences was 14%. A significant number of patients have developed obstruction in the pelviureteric region, and the reasons for this and possible preventive measures are discussed.