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Review
. 2025 Jan 21;17(3):334.
doi: 10.3390/cancers17030334.

Narrative Review of Single-Port Surgery in Genitourinary Cancers

Olamide Omidele  1 , Yuval Elkun  1 , Christopher Connors  1 , Ahmed Eraky  1 , Reza Mehrazin  1
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Review

Narrative Review of Single-Port Surgery in Genitourinary Cancers

Olamide Omidele et al. Cancers (Basel). .

Abstract

Background: The da Vinci single-port (SP) platform is emerging as the latest innovation in minimally invasive surgery and its utilization in treating urologic malignancies continues to expand.

Methods: A search was conducted in PubMed, MEDLINE, and ScienceDirect. The final set includes 40 academic articles.

Results: Research on single-port surgery for genitourinary cancer is still an emerging topic. We divided the topic into the following categories: radical prostatectomy, radical cystectomy, nephrectomy, and nephroureterectomy.

Conclusions: The single-port platform provides urologists with another tool to tackle more complex surgical cases and pathologies with the added improvements of decreased length of stay and increased pain tolerance for patients.

Keywords: extraperitoneal; nephrectomy; radical cystectomy; radical prostatectomy; retroperitoneal; single-port; transvesical; urologic oncology.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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