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Open Partial Nephrectomy: Current Status in the Minimally-Invasive Surgery Era

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Partial nephrectomy (PN) is recommended as standard treatment for technically feasible all clinical T1 renal tumors, by the guidelines. This chapter covers open partial nephrectomy.

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  1. Unit of Urological Robotic Surgery and Renal Transplantation, University of Florence, Careggi Hospital, Florence, Italy

    Riccardo Campi & Alessio Pecoraro

  2. Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Riccardo Campi

  3. Division of Urologic Oncology, Department of Urology, Istanbul University Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey

    Selcuk Erdem

  4. Department of Urology, Kocaeli University School of Medicine, Kocaeli, Turkey

    Onder Kara

  5. Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation-Urology, Andrology and Kidney Transplantation Unit, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

    Umberto Carbonara

  6. Department of Medical, Oral and Biotechnological Sciences, Laboratory of Biostatistics, University “G. D’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy

    Michele Marchioni

  7. Department of Urology, SS Annunziata Hospital, “G. D’Annunzio” University of Chieti, Chieti, Italy

    Michele Marchioni

  8. Department of Urology, San Carlo Di Nancy Hospital, Rome, Italy

    Riccardo Bertolo

  9. Department of Urology, University Hospital Henri Mondor, APHP, 51 Avenue du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, 94010, Créteil, France

    Alexandre Ingels

  10. Biomaps, UMR1281, INSERM, CNRS, CEA, Université Paris Saclay, Villejuif, France

    Alexandre Ingels

  11. Department of Urology, University Medical Centre Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

    Maximilian Kriegmair

  12. Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Science, Urology Clinic, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

    Nicola Pavan

  13. Department of Urology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Eduard Roussel

  14. Division of Urology, Department of Oncology, School of Medicine, University of Turin, San Luigi Hospital, Orbassano, Turin, Italy

    Angela Pecoraro

  15. Division of Urology, Department of Oncology, School of Medicine, San Luigi Hospital, University of Turin, Orbassano, Turin, Italy

    Daniele Amparore

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Campi, R. et al. (2022). Open Partial Nephrectomy: Current Status in the Minimally-Invasive Surgery Era. In: Goonewardene, S.S., Persad, R., Albala, D. (eds) Robotic Surgery for Renal Cancer. Management of Urology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11000-9_13

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