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Retroperitoneoscopic nephrectomy of a horseshoe kidney with renal-cell carcinoma
Hiroshi Kitamura1, Toshiaki Tanaka, Daisuke Miyamoto
1Department of Urology, Yakumo General Hospital, Hokkaido, Japan. hkitamu@sapmed.ac.jp
Journal of Endourology
|January 28, 2004
Abstract:
A 55-year-old man had a solid tumor in the right part of a horseshoe kidney. He had previously undergone open cholecystectomy and appendectomy with panperitonitis. Retroperitoneoscopic nephrectomy was performed, with rapid recovery and good short-term results. This appears to be the first case of endoscopic surgery on a horseshoe kidney using ultrasonic shears for cancer.

