Patient: Sorry to trouble you, I know you have a lot of patients, you are also very busy at work, thank you faithfully for your selfless reply every time, you are really the angel of our patients, I am now in a hesitation, a mother’s confusion, please understand a mother does not want to leave regrets for her child, on the one hand I want to do minimally invasive surgery for the child, on the other hand our side of the doctor said minimally invasive surgery is not as successful as open surgery I don’t know what to do, so I would like to ask Director Zhou to give some guidance to a confused mother! Zhou Huixia, Department of Pediatric Urology, Bayi Children’s Hospital, General Hospital of Beijing Military Region: The doctor (I don’t know which one) who said that minimally invasive surgery does not have the same success rate as open surgery may not understand minimally invasive technology, or he may not do minimally invasive surgery well himself. In my opinion, minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery is more convenient and effective because of its magnification and multi-angle observation. Minimally invasive surgery reduces the damage of traditional open surgical pathways while ensuring the success rate of surgery, with less trauma, faster recovery, high success rate, good efficacy, good cosmetic effect, no surgical scar on the body surface after surgery, no impact on the child’s future career choice and life, and reduces the psychological impact of surgical scar on the child. The psychological impact of the surgical scar on the child is reduced. As a professional pediatric urologist, I have the responsibility and obligation to introduce you to the best surgical procedure for the treatment of pediatric hydronephrosis, so that you will not have a lot of doubts and regrets for life. Just like most people who play with computers, those who are familiar with computers certainly feel that using a computer to work and write is much faster and more convenient than writing with a traditional pen, which saves time. But for a computer layman or novice this advantage is not necessarily appreciated, do you think so? I don’t know if you can understand this analogy. At present, in the field of domestic pediatric urology, there may not be many pediatric urology institutions that have done a good and mature job in treating pediatric hydronephrosis with minimally invasive laparoscopic techniques. With the development of minimally invasive medical training institutions and the development of medicine in China, I believe that minimally invasive surgery for pediatric hydronephrosis will be a routine procedure in every pediatric urological institution. By then, when the overall level of awareness of minimally invasive laparoscopic treatment of pediatric hydronephrosis has been raised, but your child chooses open surgery because you do not believe in the success rate of minimally invasive surgery or do not know much about it, your child will be left with an inescapable surgical mark (scar) on the surface of his or her body that cannot be removed by open surgery, and no matter how much you regret at that time, it will not help. At that time, you can only look at the scar on your child’s body and feel infinite remorse and guilt for your child, and your child may also complain because you did not do enough research and left an unsightly surgical scar on his body surface. However, I think you are a very smart mother to ask questions and seek help directly from a professional pediatric urologist like me on such a public platform before your child’s surgery, and I can’t avoid it.