Open AccessRobotic radical cystectomy and intracorporeal urinary diversion: The USC technique
Author(s) -
André Luís de Castro Abreu,
Sameer Chopra,
Raed A. Azhar,
André Berger,
Gus Miranda,
Jie Cai,
Inderbir S. Gill,
Monish Aron,
Mihir Desai
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
indian journal of urology/indian journal of urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.333
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1998-3824
pISSN - 0970-1591
DOI - 10.4103/0970-1591.135673
Subject(s) - medicine , cystectomy , urinary diversion , bladder cancer , perioperative , surgery , dissection (medical) , statistical significance , lymph node , cohort , urinary system , blood loss , urology , cancer
Radical cystectomy is the gold-standard treatment for muscle-invasive and refractory nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer. We describe our technique for robotic radical cystectomy (RRC) and intracorporeal urinary diversion (ICUD), that replicates open surgical principles, and present our preliminary results.