Robotic radical nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma: a systematic review

Robotic radical nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma: a systematic review

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic radical nephrectomy (LRN) is the actual gold-standard for the treatment of clinically localized renal cell carcinoma (RCC) (cT1-2 with no indications for nephron-sparing surgery). Limited evidence is currently available on the role of robotics in the field of radical nephrectomy. The aim of the current study was to provide a systematic review of the current evidence on t...

Laparoscopic radical nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma.

PURPOSE To estimate the efficacy of the laparoscopic radical nephrectomy we analyzed the clinical data of our series. PATIENTS AND METHODS One hundred eighty five patients were enrolled in our laparoscopic radical nephrectomy program between July, 1992 and July, 2001. Of the 185 patients, 146 had small renal tumors (smaller than 5 cm in diameter) and 39 had large tumors (equal to or more than...

Laparoscopic Versus Open Radical Nephrectomy for Renal Cell Carcinoma: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to summarize and quantify the current evidence on the therapeutic efficacy of laparoscopic radical nephrectomy (LRN) compared with open radical nephrectomy (ORN) in patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in a meta-analysis. METHODS Data were collected by searching Pubmed, Embase, Web of Science, and ScienceDirect for reports published up to September 26, ...

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Positive surgical margins after partial nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Purpose: To compare the outcomes of prognosis of positive surgical margins (PSM) and negative surgical margins (NSM) after partial nephrectomy (PN). We performed this study to assess local recurrence, distant recurrence and survival rates after PN. Materials and Methods: We searched PubMed, Web of science and the Cochrane Library. Three independent reviewers extracted data using a standardized ...