Modified technique of renal defect closure following laparoscopic partial nephrectomy

Laparoscopic partial nephrectomy is now accepted as the ideal treatment option for favourably located tumours of < 4 cm [1,2]. The most obvious group of patients who benefit from this procedure are individuals in whom a normal contralateral kidney is under future potential threat, e.g. from hypertension, diabetes and hereditary cancer such as the Von Hippel–Lindau syndrome. Long-term data has shown oncological efficacy similar to that of traditional open radical nephrectomy [3].