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Partial nephrectomy.

J F Redman
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Partial nephrectomy has a place in the management of renal calculous disease. It should be limited, however, only to patients in whom calculi or calcareous material are both demonstrable and inaccessible by any other means or to patients in whom there are discrete areas of distortion, dilatation, or disease predisposing to the formation of stones with stones present.

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J F Redman. 1983. Partial nephrectomy.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6356551/

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