Open AccessUse of a novel parenchymal clamp for laparoscopic and open partial nephrectomy
Author(s) -
Paul Toren,
Turki Al-Essawi,
Anthony McLean,
Umesh Jain
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
canadian urological association journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.477
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1920-1214
pISSN - 1911-6470
DOI - 10.5489/cuaj.936
Subject(s) - nephrectomy , medicine , clamp , dissection (medical) , blood loss , surgery , parenchyma , kidney , computer science , pathology , clamping , computer vision
Increasing data advocates the wider use of partial nephrectomy forrenal tumours amenable to this approach. We describe the initialNorth American use of a novel parenchymal clamp in an openand a laparoscopic partial nephrectomy. Initial results in 3 patients(2 open, 1 laparoscopic) demonstrate excellent preservation ofrenal function and good oncologic outcomes. Hilar dissection wasavoided in all cases and the estimated blood loss was low. In oursmall series, we found this device to be a safe and useful adjunctto partial nephrectomy.