Total Tubeless Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy Without a Ureteral Catheter

Total tubeless Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) is a modified surgical method of PCNL surgery, that is, there is no indwelling nephrostomy tube and double-J tube during PCNL surgery. Compared with traditional PCNL surgery, it has the advantages of reducing pain, shortening operation time and reducing operation cost. Since this procedure was first performed in 2004, several randomized clinical studies have verified the safety and efficacy of total tubeless PCNL. Conventional total tubeless PCNL surgery requires the patient to first undergo retrograde transurethral ureteroscopic insertion of the ureteral catheter in the lithotomy position, and then change the patient to the prone position. However, a large number of literature reports and the surgical experience of PCNL in the past 20 years tell the investigators that the reverse insertion of ureteral catheter can cause many recent surgical complications.The study planned to perform the operation in the prone position without reverse insertion of a ureteral catheter in the total tubular PCNL surgery.