Objective: The strongly increased availability of haemodialysis has limited the number of bench surgeries followed by autotransplantation for complex cases of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in solitary kidneys during the 1980s and 1990s. However, during recent years, quality-of-life issues, cost aspects, and the relatively high attrition rate under long-term hemodialysis have sparked renewed intere...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the use of tracheal autotransplantation for reconstruction of the hemilaryngectomy defect that includes the hemicricoid cartilage and results from resection of laryngeal or hypopharyngeal cancer. DESIGN The clinical records of 28 patients undergoing primary or salvage hemicrico-hemilaryngectomy for laryngeal (26 patients) and pyriform sinus (2 patients) cancer were analy...

BACKGROUND Autotransplant has been practiced for decades but is regaining popularity in the nephron-sparing era. Initially for benign disease, autotransplantation has a select role in malignant processes that warrants new techniques and ideas to ensure patient safety. We review the use of ex vivo uretero-pyeloscopy and frozen section to ensure kidneys may be utilized in a patient with suspected...

Seven autoplastic transplantations and one homoplastic transplantation of the spleen of dogs were made. One autotransplantation was successful, the gland being normal at the end of 88 days.