Predicting Ease of Perinephric Fat Dissection at Time of Partial Nephrectomy Using Pre-operative Fat Density Characteristics-copyright
- Technology Benefits
- Aid preoperative preparation for partial nephrectomy, Allows the physician to better predict complications prior to surgery, Optimize surgical scheduling, Improve patient counseling
- Detailed Technology Description
- The presence of thick and adherent ΓÇ£stickyΓÇØ perinephric fat in renal sparing surgery can complicate the procedure and impair the abilities to clearly delineate the surgical boundaries of an underlying renal neoplasm at the surface of the kidney. The ΓÇ£sticky fatΓÇØ can add a great deal of time and challenge to the surgical procedure. Mean total operative time in patients with such adherent fat properties undergoing open or minimally invasive surgery can be up to 1 hour longer than patients without sticky fat in addition to potentially impairing the ability to visualizethe edges of the renal parenchyma to be resected. Visualization of the perinephric fat is needed to provide data for a patientΓÇÖs surgery. Perinephric fat densities canbe practically obtained from preoperative CT imaging to identify ΓÇ£sticky fatΓÇØ and act as a strong indicator of perioperative fat surgical dissection difficulty.
- *Abstract
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Researchers at the University of South Florida have developed a scoring system to predict the perinephric fat surface density (PnFSD) of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) patients.
- Country/Region
- USA
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