Clinical Study
Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy: Is It Worth Still Performing the Retroperitoneal Route?
| | TLPN | RLPN | P |
| No. pts | 66 | 87 | | Malignant tumor (%) | 73 | 70 | 0.45 | RCC | 46 | 43 | | Papillary | 27 | 23 | | Chromophobe | 0 | 3 | | Other | 0 | 1 | | Fuhrman grade (%) | | | | 1 | 15 | 13 | 0.87 | 2 | 67 | 64 | 0.78 | 3 | 18 | 23 | 0.67 | Benign tumor (%) | 27 | 30 | 0.77 | Angiomyolipoma | 14 | 17 | | Oncocytoma | 8 | 9 | | Other | 5 | 4 | | Positive margins (%) | 5 | 3 | 0.45 |
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