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Videosurgery and Other Miniinvasive Techniques
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Comparison of modified transumbilical laparoendoscopic single-site nephroureterectomy and retroperitoneal laparoscopic nephroureterectomy: initial experience

Yang Shen
1
,
Hesong Ye
2
,
Qingyi Zhu
1
,
Jian Su
1
,
Chen Zhu
1
,
Zhonglei Deng
1
,
Long Ma
1
,
Lin Yuan
1

1.
Department of Urology, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
2.
Department of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Jiangsu Provincial Second Chinese Medicine Hospital, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Videosurgery Miniinv 2020; 15 (1): 199–207
Online publish date: 2019/09/17
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Introduction
Owing to the development of the laparoendoscopic single-site (LESS) procedure, transumbilical LESS nephroureterectomy (LESS-NU) has become a new approach for treating upper tract urothelial carcinoma.

Aim
The aim of this study is to introduce a modified LESS-NU procedure with bladder cuff excision for treating upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC). We compared its clinical efficacy and postoperative outcomes in terms of follow-up time with traditional retroperitoneal laparoscopic nephroureterectomy (RL-NU).

Material and methods
From May 2014 to May 2019, we performed nephroureterectomy on 42 patients using the retroperitoneal approach and a modified LESS approach. A retrospective analysis was conducted for the evaluation of the clinical and postoperative outcomes between the two groups.

Results
The study included 25 LESS-NU and 17 RL-NU patients. All the procedures were completed successfully. The LESS-NU group had a significantly shorter mean operative time than the RL-NU group (204.4 min, 236.18 min, p = 0.005). The differences in skin incision length (2.88 cm, 8.94 cm, p < 0.001) and oral analgesic dose (n = 1.12, n = 2.75, p < 0.001) between LESS-NU and RL-NU were statistically significant.

Conclusions
Modified LESS-NU is a feasible and safe procedure. Compared with the retroperitoneal laparoscopic approach, the single-site approach did not alter the patients’ position. LESS-NU is a better procedure for treating UTUC than RL-NU in terms of cosmetic result and postoperative pain.

keywords:

laparoendoscopic single-site, minimally invasive surgery, nephroureterectomy, upper tract urothelial carcinoma

  
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