Initial experience of complete laparoscopic radical nephroureterectomy combined with transvesical laparoscopic excision of distal ureter in patients with upper urinary tract cancer

Table 1 A list of four patients undergoing our complete laparoscopic RNU for upper urinary tract urothelial cancer

Patient no.	Sex	Age	Tumor location	Clinical TNM^a	Histology	Estimated blood loss (mL)	Pneumoperitoneum time (min)^b	Pneumovesicum time (min)	Complications^c	Length of hospital stay (day)	Follow-up (months)	Recurrence after RNU
1	F	77	Left, renal pelvis	T1N0M0	UC, pT1 HG	Nearly zero	171	52	None	12	25	Recurrence-free
2	M	78	Left, renal pelvis	TaN0M0	UC, pTa LG	Nearly zero	147	151	Bladder leakage (grade II)	16	15	Recurrence-free
3	M	80	Right, middle ureter	T2N0M0	UC, pT3 HG	nearly zero	202	93	Hypertension (grade I)	11	5	Recurrence-free
4	F	80	Right, upper ureter	T1N0M0	UC, pT2 HG	Nearly zero	176	57	None	11	3	Recurrence-free
Average		79					174	88		13	12

M male, F female, RNU radical nephroureterectomy, UC urothelical carcinoma, LG low grade, HG high grade
^aThe 7th edition of the UICC-AJCC TNM staging system
^bPnemoperitoneum time includes nephrectomy time and specimen removal time
^cThe Clavien-Dindo classification system [9]

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