Abstract:
Introduction: The results of percutaneous management of bilateral staghorn cystinic calculi is
presented.
Materials and Methods: 1 - 4% of all urinary lithiasis is chemically cystinic (1/20.000 population).
Usually open surgery is the first choice because of the particulary hardness of this type of stone. The
staghorn calculi were removed percutaneously, in series, bilateral.
Results: Few small fragments of calculi were abandoned in the right lower calyx and removed
several months later. The patient was seen every year for the last three years - no recurrence.
Conclusions: Percutanoeus management of cystinic stagorn calculi is shown as an alternative to
open surgery.
