Advances in Urology
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 295825, 3 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/295825
Case Report

Totally Tubeless Outpatient Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy: Initial Case Report

Darren Beiko, Meghana Samant, and Thomas B. McGregor

Department of Urology, Kingston General Hospital, Queen's University, 76 Stuart Street, Kingston, ON, K7L 2V7, Canada

Received 4 March 2009; Accepted 21 April 2009

Academic Editor: Sangtae Park

Copyright © 2009 Darren Beiko et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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