a surgical procedure on the kidney to correct nephroptosis by fixing the kidney in place
Examples of 'nephropexy' in a sentence
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Therapeutic attitude was interventionist in our case, performing successful management with modified medial nephropexy, with a retroperitoneal approch.
Wissem Hmida, Faouzi Mallat, Mouna Ben Othmen, Faouzi Limayem, Faouzi Mosbah 2014, 'Modified medial nephropexy for treatment of the anterior nutcracker syndrome', Urology Annalshttp://www.urologyannals.com/article.asp?issn=0974-7796;year=2014;volume=6;issue=4;spage=352;epage=355;aulast=Hmida. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Transperitoneal laparoscopic nephropexy was performed.
Jonas Wadstrom, Michael Haggman 2010, 'Laparoscopic nephropexy exposes a possible underlying pathogenic mechanism and allowssuccessful treatment with tissue gluing of the kidney and fixation of the colon tothe lateral abdominal wall', International Brazilian Journal of Urologyhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1677-55382010000100003. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The paper summarizes long-term results of examination and treatment of 104 patients after conventional and videoendoscopic nephropexy.
Z A Kadyrov, F S Kalandarov, A N Butsko, O N Bezuglyi 2013, 'Remote results of different methods of nephropexy', RUDN Journal of Medicinehttp://journals.rudn.ru/medicine/article/view/3251. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The technique of retroperitoneoscopic management of chyluria consisted of nephrolympholysis,ureterolympholysis, hilar vessel stripping, fasciectomy and nephropexy.
N P Gupta 2005, 'Retroperitoneoscopic management of intractable chyluria', Indian Journal of Urologyhttp://www.indianjurol.com/article.asp?issn=0970-1591;year=2005;volume=21;issue=1;spage=63;epage=65;aulast=Gupta. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)