title: Renal bench surgery.
abstract: Eighteen patients undergoing bench surgery and autotransplantation are reported. The major indications for this procedure are renovascular hypertension and neoplasms affecting either both kidneys or a solitary kidney. The least satisfactory results were obtained when calculus disease was present.
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006978:Hypertension, Renovascular / Q000628:therapy; D007668:Kidney / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D007669:Kidney Calculi / Q000601:surgery; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D012077:Renal Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012185:Retroperitoneal Fibrosis / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous