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From: Comparison of three dimensional reconstruction and conventional computer tomography angiography in patients undergoing zero-ischemia laparoscopic partial nephrectomy

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Conventional CTA and 3D reconstruction demonstrated a tumor located at the renal hilum. a Conventional CTA image could identify extrarenal arteries and the tumor, and sometimes the intrarenal artery branches, but failed to illustrate the relationship between tumor and its feeding arteries. b Conventional 3D reconstruction based on the CTA could reveal the relationship between kidney, tumor and extrarenal arteries, but it typically present kidney, tumor and renal vessels as opaque, which makes it impossible to visualize the intrarenal anatomy and tumor feeding arteries. c-d The 3D reconstruction images in our study included transparent kidney and 3D course of extra- and intrarenal tumor feeding arteries (c) and 3D surface rendered semitransparent renal tumor, which make it possible to show the target feeding arteries all around the tumor (d)

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