Percutaneous nephrolithotomy versus open surgery for surgical treatment of patients with staghorn stones: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Yiwen Chen; Jianhua Feng; Haifeng Duan; Youwei Yue; Chaofeng Zhang; Tuo Deng; Guohua Zeng

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0206810

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Percutaneous nephrolithotomy versus open surgery for surgical treatment of patients with staghorn stones: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Yiwen Chen ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Yiwen Chen, Jianhua Feng, Haifeng Duan, Youwei Yue

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Urology, Minimally Invasive Surgery center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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Jianhua Feng ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Yiwen Chen, Jianhua Feng, Haifeng Duan, Youwei Yue

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Urology, Longgang District Central Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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Haifeng Duan ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Yiwen Chen, Jianhua Feng, Haifeng Duan, Youwei Yue

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software

Affiliation Department of Urology, Minimally Invasive Surgery center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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Youwei Yue ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Yiwen Chen, Jianhua Feng, Haifeng Duan, Youwei Yue

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Urology, Longgang District Central Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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Chaofeng Zhang,

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Urology, Minimally Invasive Surgery center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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Tuo Deng,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Urology, Minimally Invasive Surgery center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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Guohua Zeng

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: gzgyzgh@vip.tom.com

Affiliation Department of Urology, Minimally Invasive Surgery center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3790-6434

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Percutaneous nephrolithotomy versus open surgery for surgical treatment of patients with staghorn stones: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Yiwen Chen,
Jianhua Feng,
Haifeng Duan,
Youwei Yue,
Chaofeng Zhang,
Tuo Deng,
Guohua Zeng

Published: January 31, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206810

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