Polycythemia vera in GIST patients. Background: Abdominal tumors involving retroperitoneal vessels are rare but often constitute a terminal condition because of the presumed inextirpability of the ...

Since the introduction of shockwave lithotripsy in 1980 for the management of renal stones, minimally invasive therapy for urolithiasis has improved and various new techniques have been introduced. [3 ...

Background A 60-year-old man with a history of atherosclerotic disease of the carotid and coronary vasculature presented with lower back pain and acute renal failure. Imaging studies revealed ...

The evolution of surgery today is toward less and less invasiveness [1]. In an effort to maximize the benefits of minimally invasive surgery, a new concept in surgery, natural orifice transluminal ...

Robotic partial nephrectomy (RPN) has increasingly been applied to the treatment of small renal masses. Because of space limitations and the size of the robot at the patient side, the standard ...

For a number of years contemporary surgery has focused on minimization of invasiveness of intervention. Procedures on adrenal glands are performed almost exclusively with video techniques via trans- ...