Laparoscopic Nephrectomy: Initial Case Report
Ralph V Clayman1, Louis R Kavoussi1, Nathaniel J Soper1
1Departments of Surgery (Division of Urologic Surgery) and Radiology, and Division of General Surgery, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, and Cook Urological, Inc., Spencer, Indiana.
The Journal of Urology
|December 26, 2016
Abstract:
A tumor-bearing right kidney was completely excised from an 85-year-old woman using a laparoscopic approach. A newly devised method for intra-abdominal organ entrapment and a recently developed laparoscopic tissue morcellator made it possible to deliver the 190 gm. kidney through an 11 mm. incision.


