Sentences with phrase «nephrectomy using»

The new case series, published in European Urology, examined results from seven patients who underwent partial nephrectomy using intracorporeal cooling and extraction — or ICE — between April and September.

«These findings demonstrate feasibility of robotic partial nephrectomy using ice to cool the kidney, potentially extending the window of time surgeons have to work before kidney damage occurs.»

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However, the use, outcomes, and costs of robotic nephrectomy have not been known.

In one study, In Gab Jeong, M.D., Ph.D., of the Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, and University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, and colleagues examined the use of robotic - assisted radical nephrectomy (kidney removal) in the United States and compared the in - hospital outcomes and costs between this procedure and laparoscopic radical nephrectomy.

Patients and Methods: A tissue microarray (TMA) consisting of four biopsy cores from 34 matched pairs of nephrectomy and metastatic sites of clear cell RCC was used to assess PD - L1 expression by quantitative immunofluorescence.

To determine whether expression of PD - L1 in nephrectomy specimens can be used as a surrogate for expression in the sites of metastases (and vice versa), we examined the correlation of marker expression (mean AQUA scores for all four cores) between the matched specimens using the Pearson correlation test.