The main surgical options for treatment of UPJ obstruction in a functioning kidney include open or laparoscopic pyeloplasty and endopyelotomy performed in an antegrade or retrograde fashion.

Ureteropelvic junction obstruction has traditionally been treated with open pyeloplasty, but antegrade endopyelotomy is a less-invasive, widely accepted, alternative therapy. Dimarco and ...

On account of the patient's recurrent symptoms and the presence of significant UPJ obstruction, laparoscopic pyeloplasty was scheduled as an urgent elective procedure. Laparoscopic pyeloplasty was ...