1. Hand-assisted laparoscopic right nephrectomy and autotransplantation for treatment of renovascular hypertension
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Antonio Marmo Lucon, Anuar Ibrahim Mitre, Miguel Srougi, José Luiz Chambo, José Nery Praxedes, and Rafael F. Coelho
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medicine.medical_specialty ,lcsh:R5-920 ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Loin pain hematuria syndrome ,Iliac fossa ,General Medicine ,urologic and male genital diseases ,medicine.disease ,Autotransplantation ,Nephrectomy ,Renovascular hypertension ,Surgery ,Transplantation ,surgical procedures, operative ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,medicine.artery ,medicine ,Hand assisted ,Renal artery ,business ,lcsh:Medicine (General) - Abstract
INTRODUCTION Renal autotransplantation has been described as an effective method for addressing complicated urological disorders, including debilitating ureteral injury or loss, upper ureteral malignancies, complex nephrolithiasis, loin pain hematuria syndrome, and branch or distal renal artery disease. Standard autotransplantation involves 2 distinct surgical procedures: nephrectomy and subsequent renal graft into the iliac fossa. The technique mimics standard allografting procedures and typically uses a separate flank incision for the live donor nephrectomy and an extraperitoneal pelvic incision for renal transplantation. Alternatively, [...]
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- 2007