Applicability and feasibility of robot-assisted cystectomy and intracorporeal urinary diversion in a patient with right renal pelvic ectopia
Stefano Puliatti,
Stefania Ferretti,
Natali Rodriguez Peñaranda
et al.
Abstract:Background:
The ectopic pelvic kidney, a common renal anomaly, is often smaller and malformed, with a shorter and sometimes tortuous ureter (
1
). Muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC), constituting 15-25% of bladder cancer cases (
2
), mandates radical cystectomy with a 50% 5-year survival rate (
2
). Despite the growing use of robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) (
3
,
4
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