Open AccessComparison of surgical, functional, and oncological outcomes of open and robot-assisted partial nephrectomy
Author(s) -
Uğur Boylu,
Cem Başataç,
Ümi̇t Yildirim,
Fikret Fatih Önol,
Eyüp Gümüş
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of minimal access surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0972-9941
pISSN - 1998-3921
DOI - 10.4103/0972-9941.147699
Subject(s) - medicine , nephrectomy , blood loss , surgery , demographics , urology , kidney , demography , sociology
We aimed to compare the surgical, oncological, and functional outcomes of robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) with open partial nephrectomy (OPN) in the management of small renal masses.