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Often a laparoscope will be used to perform kidney surgery on a
patient as it is thought to cause them less shorten and shortens the
time it takes for them to recover (although this may not be true for
people who have kidney cancer).
A laparoscopy allows the surgeon to perform an operation by inserting
a [...]

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