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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The main advantages of single-site surgery are the reduced number of incisions needed, and the potential for reduced pain and reduced hospital stays Secondly, instruments that are currently used for ...

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 ...

Laparoendoscopy using one working port is a rapidly developing branch of minimal invasive techniques in surgery, but experience with laparoendoscopic single-site (LESS) surgery is still small [1-4].

If a kidney is affected by cancer or irreversibly damaged, it may need to be removed. Removal of a kidney (nephrectomy) can be done as an open operation or through ‘keyhole surgery’ using several ...

New Rochelle, NY, March 15, 2011—Since the first laparoscopic procedure was performed to remove a diseased kidney 20 years ago at Washington University in St. Louis, this breakthrough minimally ...

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

Current evidence on laparoscopic partial nephrectomy suggests that it is safe and efficacious when undertaken by surgeons with special expertise in this technique. Surgeons undertaking laparoscopic ...

Robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery does not appear to offer any clinical benefits over conventional laparoscopic techniques in terms of outcomes and complication rates but is associated with ...