Materials and Methods
This prospective study included 22 patients scheduled for partial
nephrectomy and 40 patients for donor nephrectomy. Intra-operative fat
dissection time was recorded and the complexity of perirenal fat
dissection was surgeon-classified as easy, moderate, and difficult.
Perirenal fat and subcutaneous fat thickness was measured. Measurement
of perirenal fat depth, and the Hounsfield unit(HU) for both perirenal
and subcutaneous fields was performed using CT images. All specimens
were submitted for histopatological analysis. Researchers in each arm
were blinded to other researchers’ data.