Robot assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy: initial experience.

Purpose: Advances in laparoscopy have made laparoscopic partial nephrectomy a technically feasible procedure but it remains challenging to even experienced laparoscopists. We hypothesized that robotic assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy may make this procedure more efficacious than the standard laparoscopic approach.

Materials And Methods: Ten patients with a mean age of 58 years and mean tumor size of 2.

Robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy.

The indications for nephron-sparing surgery and for minimally invasive surgery are continually expanding. Nephron-sparing surgery, also known as partial nephrectomy, presents a challenge to the minimally invasive surgeon. Herein, we describe our technique of robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy.

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Altered N-myc downstream-regulated gene 1 protein expression in African-American compared with caucasian prostate cancer patients.

Purpose: The protein encoded by N-myc downstream-regulated gene 1 (NDRG1) is a recently discovered protein whose transcription is induced by androgens and hypoxia. We hypothesized that NDRG1 expression patterns might reveal a biological basis for the disparity of clinical outcome of prostate cancer patients with different ethnic backgrounds.

Experimental Design: Patients who underwent radical prostatectomy between 1990 and 2000 at Veterans Administration Medical Center of New York were examined.

Use of fibrin glue and gelfoam to repair collecting system injuries in a porcine model: implications for the technique of laparoscopic partial nephrectomy.

Background And Purpose: One of the challenges of laparoscopic partial nephrectomies is the repair of a collecting system injury. We hypothesized that fibrin glue plus Gelfoam could be sufficient to repair such injuries.

Materials And Methods: Four pigs (eight kidneys) underwent collecting system injuries of various lengths (3, 5, and 10 mm) (N = 8 each) during partial nephrectomy.