nephrectomy
Sign in to saveA nephrectomy is the surgical removal of a kidney, performed to treat a number of kidney diseases including kidney cancer. It is also done to remove a normal healthy kidney from a living or deceased donor, which is part of a kidney transplant procedure.
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- Medical intervention.Name
- Partial Nephrectomy
- Medical intervention.Image
- File:Diagram showing before and after a partial nephrectomy CRUK 102.svg
- Medical intervention.Caption
- Before and after a partial nephrectomy
- Medical intervention.MeshID
- D009392
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Research
60,173 papers- Hand-assisted laparoscopic nephrectomy.Current opinion in urology · 2002
- Procedure: Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy.Journal of endourology · 2021
- Post-operative chyle leak following nephrectomy: Inference from tertiary care center and review of literature.Urologia · 2024
- Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy for ectopic kidney.Transplantation proceedings · 2012
- Chylous Ascites After Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy: Is Early Surgical Intervention Necessary?Experimental and clinical transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation · 2023
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14 sectionsContents
- History
- Indications
- Procedure
- Kidney donation
- After care
- Partial nephrectomy
- History
- Indications
- Procedure
- Complications
- Cancer control, quality of life, and survival
- See also
- References
- External links
A nephrectomy is the surgical removal of a kidney, performed to treat a number of kidney diseases including kidney cancer. It is also done to remove a normal healthy kidney from a living or deceased donor, which is part of a kidney transplant procedure.
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