I am looking to find the 10 Medical Centers or Hospitals) in the
United States that perform the highest number of "Laparacsopic Partial
Nephroctomies".
Also, I would like to know the number of this kind of surgery that
each of these institutions has performed in the past reporting year.

My own research has shown that laparoscopic kidney surgery began to be
used in the United States around 2000 as a treatment for small renal
cell tumors in place of an open major abdominal surgery.  You will see
in the literature that laparscopic radical nephrectomy (removing the
entire kidney) is regularly done.  But I specifically am only
interested in the numbers and plcaes that are doing the partial
laparascopic nephrectomy (only removing a portion of a kidney).

Please include any URLS along with the answer to the questions.

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Clarification of Question by pam22-ga on 29 Apr 2005 13:45 PDT

Oops_ in the first paragraph, I mis-spelled the word nephrectomies,
and put the incorrect nephroctomies.