Impact of tumor contact surface area on collecting system entry in robot-assisted partial nephrectomy: a retrospective analysis.

Journal: BMC urology
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Collecting system entry in robot-assisted partial nephrectomy may occur even in cases showing a low N factor in the R.E.N.A.L nephrometry score. Therefore, in this study, we focused on the tumor contact surface area with the adjacent renal parenchyma and attempted to construct a novel predictive model for collecting system entry.

Authors

  • Tatsuya Umemoto
    Department of Urology, Tokai University School of Medicine, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara, Kanagawa, 259-1193, Japan.
  • Masanori Hasegawa
    Department of Urology, Tokai University School of Medicine, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara, Kanagawa, 259-1193, Japan. hasem@tsc.u-tokai.ac.jp.
  • Soichiro Yuzuriha
    Department of Urology, Tokai University School of Medicine, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara, Kanagawa, 259-1193, Japan.
  • Tatsuo Kano
    Department of Urology, Tokai University School of Medicine, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara, 259-1193, Kanagawa, Japan.
  • Takahiro Ogawa
    Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
  • Masayoshi Kawakami
    Department of Urology, Tokai University School of Medicine, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara, Kanagawa, 259-1193, Japan.
  • Mayura Nakano
    Department of Urology, Tokai University School of Medicine, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara City, Kanagawa, 259-1193, Japan.
  • Hakushi Kim
    Department of Urology, Tokai University School of Medicine, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara, Kanagawa, 259-1193, Japan.
  • Masahiro Nitta
    Department of Urology, Tokai University School of Medicine, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara, Kanagawa, 259-1193, Japan.
  • Yoshiaki Kawamura
    Department of Urology, Tokai University School of Medicine, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara, Kanagawa, 259-1193, Japan.
  • Sunao Shoji
    Department of Urology, Tokai University School of Medicine, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara, Kanagawa, 259-1193, Japan.
  • Ryuichi Mizuno
    Department of Urology Keio University School of Medicine Tokyo Japan.
  • Akira Miyajima
    Department of Urology, Tokai University School of Medicine, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara, Kanagawa, 259-1193, Japan.