Nephrectomy
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.
| Nephrectomy | |
|---|---|
Before and after a radical nephrectomy | |
| ICD-9-CM | 55.5 |
| MeSH | D009392 |
| OPS-301 code | 5-554 |
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