Editorial comment: Percutaneous endoscopic nephropexy with a percutaneous suture passed through the kidney

I believe the article ‘‘Percutaneous endoscopic nephropexy with a percutaneous suture passed through the kidney’’ is a new and stunningly simple point of technique. There have been reported different surgical techniques to fix mobile kidneys (ren mobilis) since Hans first reported such a procedure in 1881. Whereas for a century open nephropexy was performed suturing the kidney to the posterior ipsilateral abdominal wall, over the last decades laparoscopical and percutaneous techniques have been applied in a minimally invasive fashion. Laparoscopy sutured the kidney in the same place as in open surgery whereas percutaneous nephropexy used the formation of scar tissue around a nephrostomy to anchor the kidney. Laparoscopic nephropexy showed more promising results with a low morbidity.