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Abstract
The use of laparoscopy in the management of ureteral stones was one of the earliest applications of laparoscopy in urology, the first report being made by Wickham in 1979. In this study we present our experience with laparoscopic ureterolithotomy comparing both transperitoneal approach and retroperitoneal approach through a prospective randomized comparative study.
Through our study we concluded that Laparoscopic ureterolithotomy is technically feasible and safe and both of its two approaches either transperitoneal or retroperitoneal are successful procedures with a success rate nearly the same in both techniques, but and based on our results through this study, we recommend the retroperitoneal approach for laparoscpic extraction of the ureteral stones due to the fact that it has the least operative time than the transperitoneal approach, getting rid of the all stone burden, lower rate of complications and a better postoperative recovery.