Stefano Puliatti, Stefania Ferretti, Natali Rodriguez Peñaranda, Ahmed Eissa, Marco Ticonosco, Andrea De Faveri, Cosimo De Carne, Pawel Wisz, Riccardo Ferrari, Greta Tosi, Filippo Annino, Giampaolo Bianchi, Salvatore Micali
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), there is limited data on its application in ectopic kidneys. Only one RARC case has been reported (5), in contrast to numerous open radical cystectomies (1, 6) involving an ectopic kidney...
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