Abstract
Nephrectomy using MIS was described in pediatric surgery at the beginning of the 1990s [1]. Nephrectomy is probably the most popular urologic indication for the video surgical procedure in children. There are mainly three ways to approach the kidney in MIS: laparoscopy and retroperitoneoscopy, which are the most used techniques adopted in children, and the prone posterior approach adopted rarely by some authors [2–5]. In this chapter the authors will show the main aspects of laparoscopic and retroperitoneoscopic approach.
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Esposito, C. et al. (2019). Laparoscopic and Retroperitoneoscopic Nephrectomy. In: Esposito, C., Becmeur, F., Steyaert, H., Szavay, P. (eds) ESPES Manual of Pediatric Minimally Invasive Surgery . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00964-9_48
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