Nephrectomy

Nephrectomy
Before and after a radical nephrectomy
ICD-9-CM55.5
MeSHD009392
OPS-301 code5-554

A nephrectomy is the surgical removal of a kidney, performed to treat a number of kidney diseases including kidney cancer. It is also done to remove a normal healthy kidney from a living or deceased donor, which is part of a kidney transplant procedure.

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