title: [Current status of the retroperitoneoscopic surgical approach in pediatric urology].
abstract: Urologic pediatric retroperitoneoscopy has had three different stages that have conditioned, although not hindered, its development: 1) limited number of indications in the pediatric age, because pediatric surgery itself is not much invasive; 2) adaptation of the technological development from adult to children; 3) overcoming the controversies between laparoscopic and non laparoscopic pediatric surgeons. After overcoming these stages, retroperitoneoscopy has become an indispensable tool for the treatment of various diseases of the kidney, being nephrectomy the gold standard among the indications for ablation, and pyeloplasty among reconstructive, through a complete or assisted retroperitoneoscopic approach.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Cirugía Pediátrica, Unidad de Urología Pediátrica, Complejo Hospitalario de Toledo, Toledo, España. rluque@sescam.jccm.es
authors.forename: Rafael Luque
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Mialdea
authors.forename: Rosa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Martín-Crespo
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Díaz
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Moreno
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Carrero
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D012187:Retroperitoneal Space; D014570:Urologic Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D013520:Urologic Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods