Rib Removal and Pain in Partial Nephrectomy

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients aged over 18 years who underwent open renal surgery due to kidney cancer were included in the study. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with a preoperative (one day before surgery) VAS score greater than 0, * Those with additional known diseases that could cause pain (herniated disc, urinary stone disease, inflammatory bowel diseases, other intra-abdominal pathologies), * Intraoperative complications that could cause postoperative pain, metastasis, positive surgical margins or peri-renal invasion, * Those who underwent laparoscopic surgery or those who converted to open surgery after laparoscopic surgery, * Patients that regularly used painkillers for other reasons, * Patients whose ribs other than the 11th rib were removed were excluded from the study.