Conclusions
APF is a challenge during kidney surgery. Difficult dissection prolongs
the duration of surgery, which can lead to complications. Perirenal fat
thickness measured via pre-operative CT might be used to predict APF.
Keywords : Perirenal fat; dissection; nephrectomy; minimally
invasive surgical procedures; kidney
What is already known about this topic?
The ways of prediction of adherent perirenal fat before surgery have
been studied previously with complex scoring systems but there is only
one study which adresses the histopathology under this phenomenon.
What does this article add?
Results of this study revealed that there is no need for complex scoring
systems in order to predict adherent perirenal fat. Perirenal fat
thickness measured via pre-operative CT can predict adherent perirenal
fat single handedly. Also detailed histopathological investigation under
adherent perirenal fat has been reported by this study.