Reply from authors re: Jihad H. Kaouk and Riccardo Autorino. Laparoendoscopic single-site surgery (LESS) and nephrectomy: Current evidence and future perspectives. Eur Urol 2012;62:613-5: Laparoendoscopic single-site surgery (LESS) and nephrectomy: Feasible, but still a long way to go

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We greatly appreciate the insightful editorial [1] by Kaouk and Autorino accompanying our article [2] in this issue of European Urology, and we appreciate the opportunity to respond. Urologists are always at the forefront of minimally invasive innovation. We have witnessed the development and maturity of laparoscopic nephrectomy over the past two decades. Actually, laparoscopic nephrectomy has now been established as the gold standard procedure [3], given its significant advantages over the former standard of open nephrectomy [4]