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MINIMALLY INVASIVE AND ROBOTIC SURGERY

Robot-assisted partial cystectomy for the treatment of urachal carcinoma

Danny M. Rabah

King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Address correspondence to Dr. Danny Rabah, Department of Urology, King Khalid University Hospital, PO Box 55068, Riyadh 11534 Saudi Arabia

Canadian Journal of Urology 2007, 14(4), 3640-3642.

Abstract

The traditional treatment of choice for urachal carcinoma has been either an open radical cystectomy or the more recently accepted extended partial cystectomy and umbilectomy. Recently a laparoscopic technique has been reported. We report for the first time a robot-assisted technique for an extended partial cystectomy with en bloc umbilectomy for the management of urachal carcinoma in a 49-year-old man.

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