1. Laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy with the use of 3-mm instruments and laparoscope: initial experience at a tertiary center
- Author
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Oscar Rodriguez Faba, C. Caliolo, Javier Ponce de León, Humberto Villavicencio, Armando de Gracia, Alberto Breda, Juan Manuel Villamizar, and L. Gausa
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Standard of care ,Urology ,Small instruments ,Population ,Nephrectomy ,Cicatrix ,Needlescopic surgery ,medicine ,Living Donors ,Humans ,education ,Laparoscopy ,Laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy ,education.field_of_study ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Equipment Design ,Middle Aged ,Kidney Transplantation ,Laparoscopes ,Surgery ,Treatment Outcome ,Patient Satisfaction ,Spain ,Invasive surgery ,Female ,Live donor nephrectomy ,business - Abstract
Laparoscopy has become the standard of care for kidney recovery during live donor nephrectomy (LDN) because of the well-documented better outcomes of minimally invasive surgery compared with the open approach [1-4]. Especially in the donor population, the cosmetic results are of great importance; therefore, an effort to reduce the incision size should be attempted while maintaining the safe general principles of surgery. We present our initial experience with the use of 3-mm instruments for laparoscopic LDN. (C) 2011 European Association of Urology. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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- 2011