1 Urology Department, Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Dakar, Senegal. 2 Urology Department, Hôpital General Idrissa Pouye de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal. Our study was conducted at the ...

INTRODUCTION: Nephrectomy is indicated in patients with an irreversibly damaged kidney. The nephrectomy can be performed through open or laparoscopic procedure. Although there is evidence that ...

Endometriosis is the presence of tissue that normally lines the uterus (womb) in sites other than the uterine cavity, such as the ovaries (where eggs are produced), fallopian tubes (which link the ...

The following is a summary of “Laparoscopic vs. Open nephrectomy for inflammatory renal conditions: a meta-analysis emphasizing safety,” published in the April 2025 issue of BMC Urology by Alsmadi et ...

The importance of laparoscopic and robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) in modern surgical practice cannot be overstated. These minimally invasive techniques offer significant advantages over ...

The following is a summary of “Transperitoneal vs retroperitoneal laparoscopic radical nephrectomy: a double-arm, parallel-group randomized clinical trial,” published in the February 2024 issue of ...

Catheter ablation tools A retrospective study revealed no significant difference in 36-month progression-free survival and renal function outcomes in patients with small renal masses. Microwave ...

The place of laparoscopy in the resection of Wilms' tumors has remained debatable, but evidence that neoadjuvant chemotherapy causes tumor shrinkage has made laparoscopic nephrectomy (LN) a feasible ...

Kidney cancer happens when cells in the kidney begin to grow and divide out of control. It ranks in the top 10 types of cancer that affect both men and women in the United States, according to the ...

1 Department of Urology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China 2 Department of Pathology, The People's Hospital of Liaoning Province, Shenyang, China Objective: To compare ...

Objective: To provide a step-by-step overview of the University of Florence technique for robotic living donor nephrectomy (LDN), focusing on its technical nuances and perioperative outcomes. Methods: ...