Kidney cancer is among the most lethal of urologic malignancies. The rising incidence of kidney cancer is attributable to greater detection of incidental small renal masses (≤4 cm) from increased use ...

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 ...

University of Iowa Health Care transplant surgeon Ramy El-Diwany recently performed the first robotic living donor ...

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 ...

An international study examined outcomes between a single-port (SP) versus a multi-port (MP) approach to RAPN, with a focus on elderly patients. Despite similar demographics among patients ≤64 years ...

Renal cell carcinoma can sometimes spread to the inferior vena cava (IVC), the body's largest vein, posing a threat to the heart and brain. Robotic nephrectomy for inferior vena cava tumor thrombus ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research suggests that a surgeon no longer needs to be in the same room as the patient, and that operating on a patient ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The combination of robotics and patient-specific instrumentation may create a parallel strategy for care. Vendor ...

Conventional absolute indications for PN include bilateral tumors, renal insufficiency, or a solitary functional kidney. 11 Indications for NSS have evolved to encompass the majority of tumors <4 cm ...