Surgeons with greater skill in RAPN upon evaluation had lower rates of extended hospital stay, estimated blood loss, positive surgical margins, emergency department visits, and hospital readmissions.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Lower rates of adverse outcomes were linked to higher technical skill Surgeons with higher scores had lower ...

However, while the safety of RPN has been confirmed, relative advantages with RPN when compared to LPN are unproven, 8, 22, 29, 36-41 and reported clinical outcomes are difficult to interpret in the ...

Robot-assisted partial nephrectomy is an emerging technique that potentially provides advantages over conventional laparoscopic approaches. A retrospective multi-institutional study suggests that ...

In patients with small (≤4 cm) renal tumors, nephron-sparing partial nephrectomy, performed either as open surgery or as a laparoscopic procedure, has shown at least equivalent oncologic outcomes to ...

In the treatment of small renal masses, robotic partial nephrectomy (RPN) has a superior morbidity profile compared with laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (LPN), according to an updated meta-analysis ...

Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers find that outcomes of robotic assisted kidney cancer surgery, when performed by experienced surgeons at high volume centers, prove more beneficial to patients when ...