Robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (RAPN) for completely endophytic renal tumors is challenging because of the tumor complexity. The enucleation technique is an ideal resection method to maximally preserve the renal parenchyma. In the p...
Robot-assisted radical nephrectomy (RRN) is increasingly utilized as an alternative to laparoscopic radical nephrectomy (LRN), but there are concerns over costs and objective benefit. In the setting of very large renal masses (>10 cm), comparison be...
There have been insufficient data regarding the impact of partial nephrectomy (PN) with minimal invasive approaches, including robot-assisted PN (RAPN), on postoperative quality of life (QOL) in patients with small renal mass (SRM). The objective of...
Hinyokika kiyo. Acta urologica Japonica
Oct 1, 2021
A 71-year-old man was referred to our hospital for treatment of a 2 cm-sized right renal mass incidentally found by computed tomography (CT) and was diagnosed with right renal cell carcinoma cT1aN0M0. Contrast-enhanced CT revealed that the aorta was ...
First proposed by Kimball and Ferris in 1933 for the treatment of papillary tumors in the upper urinary tract, radical nephroureterectomy (RNU) with bladder cuff excision remains the gold standard for management of high-risk upper tract urothelial ca...
The clinical data of 22 patients with giant renal hamartoma in Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital who underwent robot-assisted laparoscopic nephron-sparing surgery from October 2014 to January 2020 were retrospectively analyzed. All the patients s...
JSLS : Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons
Jan 1, 2021
OBJECTIVES: The da Vinci SP® Surgical System received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for urological procedures in 2018. Here, we describe the first experience performing single-port robot-assisted donor nephrectomy (RADN) using the da Vin...
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