The objective: evaluation of the effectiveness and safety percutaneous nephrolithotripsy in patients supine position. Materials methods. For period 2017–2021, 521 mini-PNL were performed according to standard technique, where 458 (87,9%) cases operation was patient’s prone position, 63 (12,1%) on position (group 1). control group (2 group) consisted 70 patients, sporadically selected among whom...

Abstract Aim The effects of anterior skull base surgery on surgeon’s ergonomics remain unclear and this study explore the impact patient, surgeon, screen positioning during surgery. Method A total 20 different surgical positions involving operating assisting patient head position, camera position position/number were simulated. For each ergonomic upper limb, neck, trunk, lower limb surgeons ana...

Background and aims: Finding the safe location of spinal cord for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) during surgical procedures is very important due to its various nature for each patient as well as its potential peripheral nervous system hazards. The aim of this study was to find the relationship between the location of conus medullaris (CM) and gender, age and body mass index (BMI) in order to minimi...

background: finding the safe location of spinal cord for cerebrospinal fluid (csf) during surgical procedures is very important due to its various nature for each patient as well as its potential peripheral nervous system hazards. the aim of this study was to find the relationship between the location of conus medullaris (cm) and gender, age and body mass index (bmi) in order to minimize the po...