Oxford Renal Surgery Group

Renal Surgery team

Mr Mark Sullivan

Mr William Gietzmann

The Oxford Renal Surgery Group is a multidisciplinary group of healthcare professionals dedicated to the management of benign and malignant diseases of the upper urinary tract.

In April 2012 we were recognised by NHS Specialised Services (NHS England) as the national referral centre for ex-vivo partial nephrectomy, an operation that we perform for patients with complex renal cancers in solitary kidneys.

We also act as a tertiary referral centre for retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for testicular cancer, IVC tumour thrombectomy and other complex renal cancer surgery.

We have extensive experience in laparoscopic surgery, having performed over a thousand cases to date. In addition, we now use the Intuitive Surgical Da Vinci Si robotic system, to perform a range of robotic assisted kidney operations.

Conditions we treat

• Renal cancer
• Upper tract urothelial carcinoma
• Pelvi-ureteric junction (PUJ) obstruction
• Complex renal stones
• Chronic pyelonephritis
• Urological complications following transplantation

Specialist surgical treatments offered by our team

• Open surgery
  • ex-vivo partial nephrectomy (EPN)
  • radical nephrectomy
  • partial nephrectomy
  • radical nephroureterectomy
  • IVC thrombectomy
  • segmental ureterectomy
  • retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND)
  • simple nephrectomy
  • ureteric re-implantation
  • renal auto-transplantation
  • radical orchidectomy
  • metastasectomy
  • ureterolysis
• Laparoscopic surgery
  • radical nephrectomy
  • partial nephrectomy
  • radical nephroureterectomy
  • simple nephrectomy
  • retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND)
  • pyeloplasty
  • nephrolithotomy
  • metastasectomy
• Robotic surgery
  • partial nephrectomy
  • pyeloplasty
  • retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND)
• Endoscopic surgery
  • flexible ureterorenoscopy and laser ablation
• Ablative therapies
  • radiofrequency ablation (RFA)
  • microwave ablation
  • high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)
  • vascular targeted photodynamic therapy (VTP)
• Active surveillance of kidney cancer