TY - JOUR
T1 - Renal cystic disease
T2 - Laparoscopic management
AU - Pearle, Margaret S
AU - Traxer, O.
AU - Cadeddu, Jeffrey A
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Laparoscopy offers a safe and efficacious means of ablating symptomatic simple renal cysts while conferring the usual benefits of shorter hospital stay, quicker convalescence, and reduced postoperative pain, although no direct comparison with open surgery has been performed. For indeterminate, complex renal cysts, laparoscopic exploration may spare the patient a morbid open operation to assess a cystic lesion of indeterminant risk. Although laparoscopic removal of kidneys with ADPKD remains a technically challenging exercise, centers of laparoscopic expertise have demonstrated the safety and feasibility of the procedure, thereby expanding the benefits of laparoscopic surgery to patients traditionally relegated to open surgical management.
AB - Laparoscopy offers a safe and efficacious means of ablating symptomatic simple renal cysts while conferring the usual benefits of shorter hospital stay, quicker convalescence, and reduced postoperative pain, although no direct comparison with open surgery has been performed. For indeterminate, complex renal cysts, laparoscopic exploration may spare the patient a morbid open operation to assess a cystic lesion of indeterminant risk. Although laparoscopic removal of kidneys with ADPKD remains a technically challenging exercise, centers of laparoscopic expertise have demonstrated the safety and feasibility of the procedure, thereby expanding the benefits of laparoscopic surgery to patients traditionally relegated to open surgical management.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0094-0143(05)70116-6
DO - 10.1016/S0094-0143(05)70116-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 11098765
AN - SCOPUS:0033769539
SN - 0094-0143
VL - 27
SP - 661
EP - 673
JO - Urologic Clinics of North America
JF - Urologic Clinics of North America
IS - 4
ER -