Open versus robotic-assisted partial nephrectomy: a multicenter comparison study of perioperative results and complications.

Purpose: To compare surgical results, morbidity and positive surgical margins rate of patients undergoing robotic partial nephrectomy (RPN) versus open partial nephrectomy (OPN).

Methods: This is an observational multicenter study promoted by the "Associazione GIovani Laparoscopisti Endoscopisti" (AGILE) no-Profit Foundation, which involved six Italian urologic centers. All clinical, surgical, and pathological variables of patients treated with OPN or RPN for renal tumors were gathered in a prospectively maintained database.

Minimally invasive adrenalectomy: a multicenter comparison of transperitoneal and retroperitoneal approaches.

Minimally invasive adrenalectomy (MIA) is both feasible and safe with either transperitoneal or retroperitoneal entry. However, only a few studies have rigorously compared these two techniques. The aim of the current study is to compare transperitoneal and retroperitoneal adrenalectomy to detect significant differences in patient selection and perioperative outcomes.

[Minimally invasive adrenalectomy: transperitoneal vs. retroperitoneal approach].

Laparoscopic adrenalectomy is now regarded as the procedure of choice for most adrenal glands presenting surgical pathology. The primary adrenal-specific contraindication to laparoscopic adrenalectomy today is the presence of a large adrenal mass with evidence of local infiltration or venous invasion. We used our multicentre experience to compare the transperitoneal (TLA) and retroperitoneal (RLA) minimally invasive approaches.