[Outcomes of transperitoneal laparoscopic nephrectomy for renal adenocarcinoma]

Laparoscopic radical nephrectomy (LRN) is method of choice in malignant renal tumors (RCC) stage T1-3. Procedure has proved to be technically safe with low post-operative morbidity and standard oncological results, provided the patients are secondaries free in the time of surgery, and there was no positive margin in resected tissue. There was no recurrence even after 6 years of follow-up. The most influential variables regarding the survival of patients postoperatively were: presence of metastases in the time of surgery p <0.0001, pathological grade p < 0.001, stage p < 0.018 and p < 0.046, respectively, if the tumors were 4 cm and bigger. It could be concluded, that laparoscopic way of removing the tumor with the kidney has proved the same oncological results even in the mid-term follow-up, if compared with classical open surgery done lege artis.