Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Lower rates of adverse outcomes were linked to higher technical skill Surgeons with higher scores had lower ...

The main advantages of single-site surgery are the reduced number of incisions needed, and the potential for reduced pain and reduced hospital stays Secondly, instruments that are currently used for ...

The probability of surgical success with telesurgery for radical prostatectomy and partial nephrectomy for small renal masses was non-inferior to local robotic surgery in a small randomized trial. The ...

Robots aren't as common in hospitals as waiting rooms are, but there are certainly a lot of robots out there now. You can thank Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG) in large part. Over 4,100 of the ...

With the widespread use of abdominal imaging, there has been a substantial increase in the detection of incidental, small renal masses. This change has resulted in a downward trend in the size and ...

Experts recently developed 23 consensus practice points/statements regarding the use of nephrectomy in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). Regardless of when it was performed in ...

Banner University Medicine Tucson has reached a milestone by completing its first robotic-assisted living donor nephrectomy.

Robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery to remove a patient's entire kidney requires slightly longer operating times and results in increased costs compared with the use of traditional laparoscopic ...

Pleotrophic action of renal cell carcinoma: Dysregulated microRNAs on hypoxia-related signaling pathways. Background: Partial nephrectomy in upper pole kidney tumors represents a distinct surgical ...

Indeterminate surgical margin (Rx) status is associated with complex or minimally invasive surgery and worse overall survival – and should not be considered as good as R0. In clinical practice, ...

Kidney cancer is one of the few malignancies in which surgical resection of the primary disease, or cytoreductive nephrectomy, has held tremendous importance. Historically, systemic therapy was ...