title: Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy in a renal allograft recipient.
abstract: In the current immunosuppression era, most renal transplant recipients with a functioning allograft are living healthier and longer lives. In men, because of prostate-specific antigen screening, more patients are diagnosed with early prostate cancer and offered curative treatment with radical prostatectomy. Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy is an accepted minimally invasive treatment for a middle-aged man with organ-confined prostate cancer. To our knowledge, laparoscopic prostatectomy has not yet been reported in renal transplant recipients. This is a case report of laparoscopic prostatectomy for biopsy-proven localized prostate cancer in a renal transplant recipient.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA. shahkk74@gmail.com
authors.forename: Ketul K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.forename: Dicken S C
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Ko
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mercer
authors.forename: Douglas M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Dahl
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011468:Prostatectomy / Q000379:methods*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*