The advantages of a minimally invasive nephrectomy are a faster recovery and better quality of life for the donors. Until recently, the majority of donor nephrectomies in Poland were done by open ...

April 22, 2010 (Landover, Maryland) — Hand-assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomy appears to be the most cost-effective procedure and yields the most favorable patient outcomes, according to new data ...

Background A 63-year-old man underwent hand-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy for a 4.5 cm right renal mass, pathologically confirmed as type 2 papillary renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Two years ...

A new technique that lets surgeons remove cancerous kidneys through a small incision with the help of their hands and special cameras and instruments gets patients out of the operating room faster ...

With the advent of laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, a greater number of potential donors are considering live kidney donation. A combination of the limitations of open nephrectomy and successes in ...

Surgeons at Leesburg Regional Medical Center have begun using hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery, a technique that makes the surgical procedure more precise, effective and efficient and more ...

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Kidney cancer is among the most lethal of urologic malignancies. The rising incidence of kidney cancer is attributable to greater detection of incidental small renal masses (≤4 cm) from increased use ...