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Raquel Gonzalez-Heredia1, Raquel Garcia-Roca1, Enrico Benedetti1
1University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Illinois, Chicago 60612, United States.
International Journal of Surgery Case Reports
|April 17, 2016
Abstract:
Total situs inversus" is an infrequent congenital condition. The robot has been already proved as a safe and attractive approach for living donor nephrectomies. We report here the first right donor nephrectomy in a patient with total situs inversus that is performed using the Da Vinci platform.
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