title: [Simple nephrectomy with retroperitoneal laparoscopy].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Nephrectomy was one of the very first urological procedures to be performed by laparoscopy. The objective of this study was to evaluate the results of retroperitoneal laparoscopic simple nephrectomy.
  
  
  METHODS
  From 1995 to 2002, 88 retroperitoneal laparoscopic simple nephrectomies were performed in 87 patients with a mean age of 45.3 years (range: 18 to 77 years). The intraoperative and postoperative complications, conversion rate, blood loss, operating time and length of hospital stay were studied for each patient.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The mean operating time was 114 min (range: 35 to 280 min), mean blood loss was 97.6 ml (range: 0 to 300 ml), there were 3 conversions (3.4%) and the mean length of hospital stay was 4.7 days (range: 2 to 13 days). The main postoperative complications were 2 cases of haematoma and one abscess of the nephrectomy site requiring surgical revision and 3 intraoperative thromboses of arteriovenous fistulas in 3 patients with polycystic kidney disease.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Due to its low morbidity, laparoscopic simple nephrectomy has probably become the, reference technique for all indications for nephrectomy for benign disease.
authors.affiliation: Service d'Urologie, Hôpital Henri Mondor, AP-HP, EMI 03-37, 51, avenue du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, 94010 Créteil.
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sebe
authors.forename: Alexandre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: de la Taille
authors.forename: Andréas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hoznek
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chopin
authors.forename: Clément-Claude
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Abbou
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Salomon
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000009:adverse effects; D008875:Middle Aged; D009392:Nephrectomy / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*