Laparoscopic nephroureterectomy with a circumaortic left renal vein
Chandan Kundavaram1, Patrick T Gomella, Kelly A Healy
1Department of Urology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, USA.
The Canadian Journal of Urology
|December 12, 2012
Abstract:
Renal vasculature anomalies can present technical challenges to laparoscopic urologic surgery. The use of preoperative imaging has made it possible to recognize and plan for such aberrant vascular anatomy. We describe a patient with a circumaortic left renal vein who underwent successful laparoscopic radical nephroureterectomy for the management of urothelial carcinoma of the renal pelvis.


