Laparoscopic nephroureterectomy: initial clinical case report.
Using a 12-mm GIA laparoscopic stapling device, a method of organ entrapment, and a recently developed high-speed electrical tissue morcellator, laparoscopic nephroureterectomy was accomplished in an 82-year-old male with a low-grade transitional cell cancer of the renal pelvis.
Clayman
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RV
Department of Surgery (Division of Urology), Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
Kavoussi
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LR
Figenshau
R S
RS
Chandhoke
P S
PS
Albala
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DM
D000368:Aged; D002295:Carcinoma, Transitional Cell / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D020706:Laparoscopes; D008297:Male; D009392:Nephrectomy / Q000379:methods*; D013528:Surgical Staplers; D014513:Ureter / Q000601:surgery*