title: Ex situ surgery of the kidney: experience with 20 autotransplantations.
abstract: The authors propose a classification of ex situ surgery of the kidney and present their clinical experience of 20 renal autotransplantations over a period of 6 years: 16 were performed for renovascular hypertension with 2 failures and 4 for recurrent staghorn calculi, with 1 stone recurrence. Based on their experience and on the literature they discuss the present status and the future implications of ex situ surgery of the kidney.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006977:Hypertension, Renal / Q000601:surgery; D007668:Kidney / Q000601:surgery*; D007669:Kidney Calculi / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D012092:Replantation