Robotic partial nephrectomy (RPN) has increasingly been applied to the treatment of small renal masses. Because of space limitations and the size of the robot at the patient side, the standard ...

Robotic assistance has been rapidly adopted by urologists for a wide range of surgical procedures involving the retroperitoneal space The rapid dissemination of robot-assisted techniques is ...

Background: A 32-year-old primiparous woman presented with a painful left-sided giant hydronephrotic kidney secondary to pelvi-ureteric junction obstruction (PUJO). Investigations: Renal ...

Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation therapy as a first choice for renal tumor in patients with von Hippel-Lindau disease. Background: Gasless single port retroperitoneal radical nephrectomy is ...

The prognostic value of glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored 80 kD protein (GPI-80) positive myeloid derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) in peripheral blood of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) ...

The surgical technique for living-donor nephrectomy should combine low donor morbidity with optimal graft integrity. Standard open extraperitoneal and transperitoneal procedures are widely used, but ...

Kolkata: Doctors at Narayana Health have performed a robotic retroperitoneal partial nephrectomy using da Vinci technology on a 53-year-old woman. The hospital states that this is the first such ...

The research team led by Professors Hong Seonghoo and Bang Seokhwan from the Department of Urology at Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, Catholic University of Korea, announced on the 30th that they have ...

HYDERABAD: Urologists at AIG Hospitals achieved a milestone by performing the first-ever robotic retroperitoneal partial nephrectomy (removing only the part of the kidney that has the tumour, instead ...

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].