Laparoscopic retroperitoneal heminephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma in horseshoe kidney: a case report and review of the literature

Table 1 A review of the literature to identify different surgical approaches for renal tumor in horseshoe kidney

Reference/Year	Procedure	Age/sex	CC/imaging	Size/RENAL score	Approach	Ports	Division of Isthmus	Duration	Hospital stay	Complications	Blood loss	Pathology
Kitamura et al. 2003 [8]	Heminephrectomy	55/M	Flank pain /CT identifying Mass	3.5 cm	Retroperitoneal	3	Harmonic scalpel at level 5. Argon beam laser coagulation	300 min	7	None	60 mL	pT1 grade 1 CCC
Bhayani et al. 2005 [18]	Heminephrectomy	52/M	Incidental mass/Ct + angio	6 cm	Transperitoneal	3	Parenchymal suture plus argon beam	195 min	2	None	400 mL	pT2 CCC
Machado et al. 2006 [24]	Heminephrectomy	64/F	Heamturia/ Ct/renal mass	8 cm	Transperitoneal	3	Electrocautery digital compression	360	4	None	NR	pT2N0M0 CCC
Araki et al. 2007 [25]	Heminephrectomy	63/F	Incidental mass/CT angio	10 cm	Hand assisted/ transperitoneal	Hand port/ 12mmx2	endoGIA	273	2	None	250 mL	pT2 CCC
Qi et al. 2014 [17]	Heminephrectomy	72/M	Incidental	7 cm	Transperitoneal	3	endoGIA	153	8	None	150 mL	pT2N0M0 grade3 CCC
Wei et al. 2022 [9]	Heminephrectomy	47 F	Incidental	7.5 cm	Retroperitoneal robot-assisted single port	1	Vascular blocking band around isthmus	190	NR	None	80 mL	pT2 N0 cM0
Wei et al. 2022 [9]	Heminephrectomy	37 F	NR	NR	Retroperitoneal robot-assisted single port	1	Vascular blocking band around isthmus	NR	NR	None	NR	NR

NR not reported, CC chieft complaint, RENAL score renal nephrometry score, CCC clear cell carcinoma

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