Publications by authors named "Inigo Goicoechea"
Background: Recently, the feasibility of a transvaginal hybrid natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) nephrectomy was demonstrated in a 23-yr-old woman with a nonfunctional atrophic kidney.
Objective: To evaluate the feasibility and reproducibility of transvaginal NOTES-assisted laparoscopic nephrectomy in female patients with and without renal cancer.
Design, Setting, And Participants: Between March 2008 and June 2009, 14 female patients were submitted to transvaginal NOTES-assisted laparoscopic nephrectomy for T1-T3a N0M0 renal cancer (n=10), lithiasis (n=2), or renal atrophy (n=2) at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Spain.