Utilizing the same incision for staged renal transplant in patients with polycystic kidney disease requiring hand-assisted laparoscopic nephrectomy

CONCLUSION: Our HALN is associated with a shorter LOS and similar complication rate to ON and can be efficiently performed for significantly larger kidneys than LN without a significant difference in operation time or LOS. The same Rutherford-Morrison incision site can be used for transplantation.PMID:36128601 | DOI:10.1111/ans.18038

Source: Hand Surgery - September 21, 2022 Category: Surgery Authors: Nguyen Huynh Peter Yoon Amy Hort Jinna Yao Taina Lee Lawrence Yuen Jerome Martin Laurence Henry Pleass Source Type: research