Background. A 57-year-old woman presented to the emergency department at a community hospital with a 2-month history of fatigue and right-sided flank and abdominal pain. Noncontrast CT of the abdomen ...

Whether the right or left kidney is preferable in living-donor nephrectomy is the subject of much debate. In view of evidence that prolonged pneumoperitoneum during the procedure adversely affects ...

The widespread use of standard laparoscopic procedures has been constrained by the technical difficulties presented by patients with PKD who have massively enlarged and cystic kidneys.

Indications for nephrectomy (including nephroureterectomy) include renal cell or urethral cancer and benign conditions that lead to a poorly functioning or non-functioning kidney. These benign ...

A TURBT allows examination beyond the bladder. Laparoscopic partial nephrectomy and percutaneous cryoablation for cT1 renal tumors are associated with similar 5-year rates of metastasis-free and ...

Large renal tumors can be removed safely and effectively with laparoscopic nephrectomy (LN), a study shows. Researchers at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., reviewed 96 LN cases ...

Long-term effects of a program of bladder preservation using chemotherapy plus radiotherapy in muscle invasive bladder cancer (BC). Analysis of biologic predictive factors and health-related quality ...

A phase II study of S-1 for the treatment of cytokine and/or tyrosine-kinase inhibitor (TKI) refractory metastatic renal cell carcinoma: Updated results. Background: Laparoscopic and robotic partial ...

Urologists at Lahore General Hospital (LGH) have successfully performed a laparoscopic nephrectomy on a 57-year-old woman from Ziarat, Balochistan, under Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz Sharif's ...

Evidence-based recommendations on laparoscopic nephrectomy (including nephroureterectomy). This involves making small incisions (keyhole surgery) to remove the damaged kidney, or kidney, ureter and ...