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.[1]

  1. ^ "Nephrectomy". National Kidney Foundation. 7 January 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2019.