Current status of robot-assisted partial nephrectomy

Current Urology Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 24-37

  Reyes, Jose M ^a   Smaldone, Marc C ^a   Uzzo, Robert G ^a   Viterbo, Rosalia ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Kidney cancer; Laparoscopy; Minimally invasive surgery; Nephrectomy; Nephrometry score; Outcomes; Partial nephrectomy; Radical nephrectomy; Renal cell carcinoma; Robotics; Small renal mass; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANGIOMYOLIPOMA; ATELECTASIS; BLEEDING; CELLULITIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FALSE ANEURYSM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; ILEUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY ABSCESS; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY TUMOR; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER INJURY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; ONCOCYTOMA; OPERATION DURATION; PAIN; PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY; PLEURA DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PYELONEPHRITIS; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYNCOPE; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE INCONTINENCE; URINE RETENTION; URINOMA;

CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; NEPHRECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84857636177     PISSN: 15272737     EISSN: 15346285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11934-011-0223-z     Document Type: Review

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