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World J Clin Cases. May 16, 2015; 3(5): 450-456
Published online May 16, 2015. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v3.i5.450
Intraoperative laparoscopic complications for urological cancer procedures
Sergio Fernández-Pello Montes, Ivan Gonzalez Rodríguez, Rodrigo Gil Ugarteburu, Luis Rodríguez Villamil, Begoña Diaz Mendez, Patricio Suarez Gil, Javier Mosquera Madera
Sergio Fernández-Pello Montes, Ivan Gonzalez Rodríguez, Rodrigo Gil Ugarteburu, Luis Rodríguez Villamil, Begoña Diaz Mendez, Patricio Suarez Gil, Javier Mosquera Madera, Urology Department, Cabueñes Hospital, 33203 Gijón, Asturias, Spain
Author contributions: Fernández-Pello S designed research; Fernández-Pello S, Gonzalez I, Gil R, Diaz B and Mosquera J performed research; Suarez P analyzed data; Fernández-Pello S and Gonzalez I wrote the paper; all authors contributed to this manuscript.
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Correspondence to: Sergio Fernández-Pello Montes, MD, Urology Department, Cabueñes Hospital, Calle de los Prados, 395, 33203 Gijón, Asturias, Spain. spello84@hotmail.com
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Received: November 24, 2014
Peer-review started: November 26, 2014
First decision: January 8, 2015
Revised: January 30, 2015
Accepted: April 8, 2015
Article in press: April 9, 2015
Published online: May 16, 2015
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Abstract

AIM: To structure the rate of intraoperative complications that requires an intraoperative or perioperative resolution.

METHODS: We perform a literature review of Medline database. The research was focused on intraoperative laparoscopic procedures inside the field of urological oncology. General rate of perioperative complications in laparoscopic urologic surgery is described to be around 12.4%. Most of the manuscripts published do not make differences between pure intraoperative, intraoperative with postoperative consequences and postoperative complications.

RESULTS: We expose a narrative statement of complications, possible solutions and possible preventions for most frequent retroperitoneal and pelvic laparoscopic surgery. We expose the results with the following order: retroperitoneal laparoscopic surgery (radical nephrectomy, partial nephrectomy, nephroureterectomy and adrenalectomy) and pelvic laparoscopic surgery (radical prostatectomy and radical cystectomy).

CONCLUSION: Intraoperative complications vary from different series. More scheduled reports should be done in order to better understand the real rates of complications.

Keywords: Intraoperative complications; Laparoscopy; Surgical complication; Urology; Cancer

Core tip: We decided to perform this literature review to light and to arrange the intraoperative rates of laparoscopic urological cancer complications, which are such as messy in the different manuscripts published. This idea leaves from an urological team which performs more than 150 laparoscopic procedures per year since 2005.