D Mendoza, R C Newman, D Albala, M S Cohen, A Tewari, J Lingeman, M Wong, L Kavoussi, J Adams, R Moore, H Winfield, J M Glascock, S Das, L Munch, M Grasso, M Dickinson, R Clayman, S Nakada, E M McDougall, I S Wolf, J Hulbert, R J Leveillee, A Houshair, C Carson
OBJECTIVES: Significant obesity is considered to be a relative contraindication to laparoscopic surgery. This study reviews the complications encountered in massively obese patients undergoing urologic laparoscopic surgery. METHODS: Body mass index (BMI) was used as an objective index to indicate massive obesity. Eleven institutions compiled retrospective data on 125 patients having a BMI greater than 30. Procedures performed included 76 pelvic lymph node dissections, 14 nephrectomies, 7 bladder neck suspensions, and 28 miscellaneous procedures...
October 1996: Urology