PURPOSE To report the 5-year oncological outcomes of patients undergoing laparoscopic radical nephrectomy for renal cancer compared to a cohort of patients undergoing open radical nephrectomy. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the data of 88 patients undergoing radical nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma prior to January 2000. Of these, 45 patients underwent laparoscopic radical nephrectom...

Nephrectomy is performed for the treatment of kidney cancer or purpose transplantation. Generally, function decreases after nephrectomy. It well known that incidence cardiovascular disease increases and ultimately mortality rate when decreases. Therefore, renal mass detected, partial nephrectomy (PN) preferred over radical (RN) to preserve as much possible. However, recent studies have shown PN...

BACKGROUND Initial management of solid organ injuries in hemodynamically stable patients is nonoperative. Therefore, early identification of those injuries likely to require surgical intervention is key. We sought to identify factors predictive of the need for nephrectomy after trauma. METHODS This is a retrospective review of renal injuries admitted over a 12-year period to a Level I trauma ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the presentation, management, pathology, and functional and oncological outcomes of patients undergoing retroperitoneoscopic treatment of bilateral synchronous sporadic RCC at our institution. METHODS We retrospectively evaluated the records of 60 patients with bilateral synchronous sporadic RCC who underwent retroperitoneoscopic treatment at the General Hospital of Peop...

OBJECTIVES To determine the best approach for live donor nephrectomy to minimise discomfort to the donor and to provide good graft function. DESIGN Single blind, randomised controlled trial. SETTING Two university medical centres, the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS 100 living kidney donors. INTERVENTIONS Participants were randomly assigned to either laparoscopic donor nephrectomy or to mini ...

case presentation in november 2015, a 31-year-old pregnant woman at gestational week 12 of her second pregnancy was referred to our private clinic in rasht, iran. she had microscopic hematuria; a mass measuring 39 × 33 mm in the upper portion of her right kidney was was detected by ultrasonography. conclusions a percutaneous renal mass biopsy was used, instead of nephrectomy, to diagnose the ma...

PURPOSE Laparoscopic radical nephrectomy has emerged as a standard of care in appropriate candidates with clinical stage T1 renal tumors (7 cm or less). Herein we present our experience with laparoscopic radical nephrectomy for clinical stage T2 tumors (greater than 7 cm). MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients undergoing laparoscopic radical nephrectomy between September 1997 and July 2003 were retr...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES To evaluate the experience with laparoscopic nephrectomy in a large county hospital and perform a cost comparison between uncomplicated open and laparoscopic nephrectomy. METHODS Eleven consecutive patients who underwent an uncomplicated laparoscopic nephrectomy in a large county hospital were compared with 8 patients who underwent uncomplicated open nephrectomy duri...