Digital 3D planning: laparoscopic partial nephrectomy

Benefits ✔ A better understanding of kidney anatomy

✔ Surgical plan design

✔ Better interaction within the surgical team

✔ Greater safety during surgery

✔ Guidance in the surgical approach during the operation

✔ Shorter operating time

Clinical case

A CT scan was performed on a 37-year-old woman with no history of disease. The results showed an incidentaloma in the right kidney. The complexity of the case was that the tumor sat entirely within the renal parenchyma, with no external view of it. This posed a significant compromise to the structure and function of the kidney.

Result in the operating room. The surgical plan was a laparoscopic partial nephrectomy with a transperitoneal approach, designed using the digital model of the organ and the structures of interest.

It proved crucial to determine the extent of the tumor and precisely identify its relationship to the rest of the kidney anatomy, in order to achieve a resection with optimal negative margins and support kidney function after surgery.

You may be interested in: “Nephrectomies during the COVID-19 pandemic.” This is not the first case where 3D models are used to treat renal incidentalomas; at the Hospital Metropolitano in Quito, Ecuador, this technique was also used to optimize surgical results.

The 3D biomodel made it possible to perform the operation in just 2 hours, with less bleeding and greater control thanks to anticipating the surgical scenario.

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