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 ...

The retroperitoneal approach to laparoscopic nephrectomy may provide a suitable alternative to the transperitoneal approach for patients, show findings from a literature review. Patients who underwent ...

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 ...

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].

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The recently developed single-port, multichannel access approach to urologic surgery may allow many common laparoscopic and robotic procedures to be performed entirely through the patient’s umbilicus, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Robotic partial nephrectomy appeared associated with predominantly superior outcomes compared with open or ...

2.1.1 Kidneys from live donors are considered more likely to be successful in treating endstage renal disease than those from cadaver donors. 2.1.2 The standard technique for retrieving kidneys from ...