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Peter Galloway1, Berni Frost1,2, Avi Raman1,2
1Lingard Private Hospital, 23 Merewether Street, Merewether, 2291, Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
Urology Case Reports
|November 11, 2024
Abstract:
As worldwide obesity rates increase the number of patients with an elevated BMI requiring urological surgery will increase. Although obesity has previously been considered a relative contra-indication to laparoscopic surgery, here we present a case of successful laparoscopic nephrectomy performed due to renal cancer in a patient with a BMI >60 kg/m2 together with a review of the associated challenges.

