Science news articles about 'kidney removal'

... tumors that might otherwise require total kidney removal or a large open incision. While ... ll see the same advantages with robotic kidney surgery as we have with robotic prostatectomy," says Dr. Rogers ...

... patient to feel better and live longer." Kidneys remove metabolic wastes from the body and regulate ... hand, would function continuously, as natural kidneys do, eliminating patient "shocks." And because ...

... performed the historic operation. The transvaginal donor kidney extraction, performed Jan. 29 on a 48- ... Because transplant donor nephrectomies are the most common kidney removal surgery — 6,000 a year ...

US surgeons successfully remove a healthy donor kidney through a small incision in the back of the donor's vagina.

... Thursday, 5 February 2009, surgeons at the University of California, San Diego Medical Centre removed a patient's diseased kidney through one incision hidden in the belly ...

Surgeons have removed a patient's diseased kidney through one incision hidden in the belly button. No other incisions were used.

Physicians have removed a kidney from a woman diagnosed with kidney cancer, through a single opening. This is the first operation of this type carried out in Spain and one of very few performed ...

Surgeons have used new surgical technique that requires only one small incision to remove a diseased kidney.