A 61-year-old male patient presented with intermittent gross hematuria.
A right renal mass with infrahepatic vena caval tumor thrombus was found using magnetic resonance imaging. We undertook a novel combined retroperitoneal and transperitoneal pure laparoscopic nephrectomy with vena caval thrombectomy for this patient. The patient recovered well after surgery and discharged on day 6. A clear cell renal cell carcinoma with venous extension was confirmed by pathologic assay. To our knowledge, this is the first report of such a novel hybrid surgical strategy.
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Tang Q, Wang T, Li X, Zhang Z, Song G, He Z, Zhou L. Are you the author?
Department of Urology, Peking University First Hospital, Institute of Urology, Peking University, National Urological Cancer Center, Beijing, China.
Reference: Urology. 2014 May;83(5):e9-10.
doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2014.01.025
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 24767537
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