Background: A standard of care for the treatment of small renal masses is partial nephrectomy. The open and laparoscopic approaches have been well described in the literature. Robotic assistance may ...

In the treatment of small renal masses, robotic partial nephrectomy (RPN) has a superior morbidity profile compared with laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (LPN), according to an updated meta-analysis ...

Surgery remains the only treatment with a chance of cure for renal cell carcinoma. Laparoscopic radical nephrectomy (LRN) has developed to be a standard treatment for the management of suspected renal ...

Background A 63-year-old man underwent hand-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy for a 4.5 cm right renal mass, pathologically confirmed as type 2 papillary renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Two years ...

A population-based cohort study evaluated the long-term scrotal surgery rates after laparoscopic nephrectomy in male living ...

The place of laparoscopy in the resection of Wilms' tumors has remained debatable, but evidence that neoadjuvant chemotherapy causes tumor shrinkage has made laparoscopic nephrectomy (LN) a feasible ...

HealthDay News — For male living kidney donors, laparoscopic nephrectomy is associated with a higher risk for subsequent scrotal surgery, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal ...

2.1.1 Kidneys from live donors are considered more likely to be successful in treating endstage renal disease than those from cadaver donors. 2.1.2 The standard technique for retrieving kidneys from ...

Since the first laparoscopic procedure was performed to remove a diseased kidney 20 years ago at Washington University in St. Louis, this breakthrough minimally invasive technique has become the ...

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KUN0068 4 GEN 0293 KUWAIT /KUNA-JZJ2 HLT-KUWAIT-SURGERY Kuwaiti physicians perform first laparoscopic nephrectomy By Khaled Al-Zaid KUWAIT, Sept 30 (KUNA) -- An operation performed by a team of ...

A population-based cohort study evaluated the long-term scrotal surgery rates after laparoscopic nephrectomy in male living kidney donors compared with nondonors.