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 ...

(HealthDay)—Laparoscopic nephrectomy can be safely performed as outpatient surgery in select patients, according to a study published in the June issue of The Journal of Urology. Nessn H. Azawi, from ...

Background. A 57-year-old woman presented to the emergency department at a community hospital with a 2-month history of fatigue and right-sided flank and abdominal pain. Noncontrast CT of the abdomen ...

Despite the popularity of laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, open donor nephrectomy is still widely performed. In recent years, the procedure has been refined to incorporate a muscle-sparing mini ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Robotic partial nephrectomy appeared associated with predominantly superior outcomes compared with open or ...

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 ...

Indications for nephrectomy (including nephroureterectomy) include benign and malignant tumours; conditions that damage renal function such as chronic infection; and donation for transplantation. For ...

Validation of MSKCC-criteria in metastatic renal cancer patients treated with sorafenib or sunitinib. Background: Although nephron-sparing surgery is the standard of care for the treatment of small ...

A transplant surgeon at the University of Iowa Health Care performed the first robotic surgery for a living kidney donation.

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

LAHORE: Under the vision of Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz Sharif’s “Health for All” initiative, Urologists of Lahore General Hospital successfully performed a laparoscopic Nephrectomy surgery of ...

Laparoscopic partial nephrectomy has been performed for >10years, but still has not gained wide popularity outside of major centers of excellence. The relative rarity of kidney cancer, combined with ...