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Upper Urinary Tract (Kidney, Ureter and Adrenal Gland)

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Laparoscopic and Robot-Assisted Surgery in Urology

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Whilst the patient is supine, following induction of anaesthesia, a urinary catheter is inserted. The patient is now rotated to the lateral position and the urinary bag is placed either at the top or bottom end of the bed for access by the anaesthetist. The legs are separated and protected with either pillows or a specially designed foam or rubber device between them as seen in the inset, in order to relieve any weight on pressure points, while the legs are slightly flexed at the knees. All other bony points, including shoulders and hips, are protected by the rubber or foam mat that is positioned on the operating table. The head and neck are supported with either pillows or a rubber head ring in order to maintain them in a neutral position. Depending on the softness of the table mattress, an axillary rubber roll may be required (not illustrated in these images) to prevent brachial plexus injury.

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  1. Department of Urology, University of Leipzig, Liebigstraße 20, 04103, Leipzig, Germany

    Jens-Uwe Stolzenburg, Rowan Casey, Minh Do, Anja Dietel, Tim Häfner, Thilo Schwalenberg, Phuc Ho Thi & Andreas Gonsior

  2. Moonsoft, Otto-Schott-Straße 2, 07745, Jena, Germany

    Jens Mondry

  3. Department of Urology, University of Patras, School of Medicine, 26500, Rio, Patras, Greece

    Evangelos N. Liatsikos & Panagiotis Kallidonis

  4. Department of Urology, University Hospital Basel, Spitalstrasse 21, 4031, Basel, Switzerland

    Alexander Bachmann, Svetozar Subotic & Stephen Wyler

  5. St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Department of Urology, Tufts University, School of Medicine, 11 Nevins Street, Suite 501, 02135, Boston, MA, USA

    Ingolf A. Türk

  6. Department of Urology, St George’s Hospital, Blackshaw Road, Tooting, SW170QT, London, UK

    Christopher Anderson

  7. Department of Urology, Jeroen Bosch Hospital, PO Box 90153, 5200 ME, ’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

    Harry P. Beerlage

  8. Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, EH4 2XU, Edinburgh, UK

    Tony Riddick, Alan McNeill & Ben G. Thomas

  9. Department of Paediatric Surgery, University of Leipzig, Liebigstraße 22, 04103, Leipzig, Germany

    Holger Till

  10. Department of Urology, Monklands Hospital, NHS, Airdrie, Lanarkshire, UK

    Ian Dunn

  11. The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Colney Lane, NR4 7UY, Norwich, UK

    Robert Mills

  12. Department of Urology, Klinikum Dortmund, Münsterstraße 240, 44145, Dortmund, Germany

    Michael C. Truß, Niklas Kreutzer & Sherif Abulsorour

  13. Imperial College NHS Trust, Charing Cross Hospital, Fulham Palace Road, W6 8RF, London, UK

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  14. Department of Urology, SLK Kliniken Heilbronn, Am Gesundbrunnen 20, 74078, Heilbronn, Germany

    Jens Rassweiler, Ali Serdar Gözen, Levent Gürkan, Jan Thorsten Klein, Giovannalberto Pini, Michael Schulze, Dogu Teber & Marcel Hruza

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    Serdar Deger

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    Mihir Desai, Pascal Zehnder, Ricardo Brandina & Inderbir S. Gill

  18. Department of Urology, Autonoma University, Fundació Puigvert, Barcelona, Spain

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  1. Department of Urology, University of Leipzig, Liebigstraße 20, 04103, Leipzig, Germany

    Jens-Uwe Stolzenburg

  2. St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Department of Urology, Tufts University, School of Medicine, 11 Nevins Street, Suite 501, 02135, Boston, MA, USA

    Ingolf A. Türk

  3. Department of Urology, University of Patras, School of Medicine, 26500, Rio, Patras, Greece

    Evangelos N. Liatsikos

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Stolzenburg, JU. et al. (2011). Upper Urinary Tract (Kidney, Ureter and Adrenal Gland). In: Stolzenburg, JU., Türk, I., Liatsikos, E. (eds) Laparoscopic and Robot-Assisted Surgery in Urology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00891-7_1

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