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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Large renal tumors can be removed safely and effectively with laparoscopic nephrectomy (LN), a study shows. Researchers at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., reviewed 96 LN cases ...

A phase II study of S-1 for the treatment of cytokine and/or tyrosine-kinase inhibitor (TKI) refractory metastatic renal cell carcinoma: Updated results. Background: Laparoscopic and robotic partial ...

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

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 ...

Evidence on the safety and efficacy of single-port laparoscopic nephrectomy is based on limited numbers of patients. Any advantage for patients of the procedure over conventional laparoscopic ...